THE LIBRARY
OF
THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES
THE
PARLIAMENTARY
O R
CONSTITUTIONAL
Hiftory of England,
From the earlieft TIMES,
T O T H E
Reftoration of King CHARLES II.
COLLECTED
From the RECORDS, the ROLLS of Parliament, the JOURNALS
of both Houfes, the Public LIBRARIES, Original MANU-
SCRIPTS, fcarce SPEECHES, and TRACTS j all compared with
the feveral Contemporary Writers, and connected, through-
out, with the Hiftory of the Times.
By SEVERAL HANDS.
THE SECOND EDITION.
IN TWENTY- FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. XXII.
From the Difturbances in Oflolfr, 16^9, to the Reiteration of the King;
and an Adjournment of the Convention Parliament in September, 1660.
LONDON,
Printed for J. and R. TON SON, and A. MILLAR, in the
Strand j and W. S A N D B Y, in Fleet-Jlreet.
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PREFACE.
', H-E Compilers of this PARLIAMENTARY
HISTORY gf- England prefent the Public
'with two Vokimes more of that Work-,
and were in Hopes that thefe would have finally
concluded it, down to their original Dejign of bring-
ing the Hiftory to the End of the Long, or Conven-
tion, Parliament : But a curious Manufcript being
fent in, the Work of fome Member of that very
Affemblyy which contains a Journal, or Diary, of all
their Debates, it has unavoidably lengthened our
Hiftory fomew hat beyond our Purpofe. A few Sheets
more of it, therefore, remain yet to be publijhed',
which, with fome very inter efting Particulars relative
to this Hiftory, and which have come to Handjince
the Publication of the former Volumes, muft be poft^
poned.
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ii PREFACE.
ported. 'Thefe loft we intend to add as an Appendix,
to precede the Index-, which, altogether, are in
great .For war dnefs to follow the reft* But, as
every one knows, an Index to any Book cannot be
completed till every Sheet of the Work be printed of,
it needs the lefs Apology for the Delay* .
The Form and Manner of our Index has been
laid before, and approved by, two very great Men,
whom we are not at Liberty to name -, we Jhall
therefore be in the lefs Pain about the Publication,
?iot doubting but it will equally pleafe our Readers.
THE
THE
Parliamentary Hiftory
O F
ENGLAND.
H £ Army being now once again Inter-regnum*
entire Lords and Matters of all, had ?59' .
many Confutations how they Ihould ^^J^oj,^
new model the Government ; and
firft they declared Flettwood to be Thfe Army fend
their Commander in Chief. They Letters.t0^
next difpatch'd Mefiengers to the Armies in Scot- j™^*
land and Ireland, to acquaint them with what they
had done ; knowing well, That it was of great
Importance to fecure thofe Forces in their In-
tereft. The Council of State met very feldom^
and that privately ; at one of which Meetings, Lud-
Icw informs us, Col. Sydinkaih made a Speech, in
Vindication of the late Proceedings of the Army ;
and undertook to prove, That they were neceffi-
tated to make ufe of this laft Remedy by a particular
Call of the Divine Providence. But, that the Lord
Prefident Bradjhaw, who was then prefcnt, tho', by
long Sicknefs, very weak and much emaciated,
yet, adds our Author, being animated by his ardent
iZeal and conftant Afteclion to the Common Caufe*
. VQL. XXII. A upon
2 'The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. upon hearing thefe Words, flood up, and interrupted
l659- him, declaring his Abhorrence of that deteftable
October!" Action ; and telling the Council, That, being now
going to his God, he had not Patience to fit there
to hear his great Name fo openly blafphemed ; and
thereupon departed to his Lodgings, and withdrew
himfelf from public Employment. Whether this
old Man was a Prophet or no we fnall not deter-
mine, yet it is certain he went to his God on the
laft Day of this very Month ; but, whether to re-
ceive Reward, or Punifhment, is left to the Reader's
The Death of Conje&ure. Wkitkcke fays, ' He died of a Quartan
Prefident Brad- Ague, which had held him a Year ; that he was a
flamt flout Man, and learned in his.ProfeiTion, but no
Friend to Monarchy.' 'Tis certain, however, the
Quartan Ague was a Friend to Prefident Brad/haw;
for, had he lived fome Months longer, he muft have
made his Exit by the Hands of an Executioner.
But, maugre all Qbftacles, the Army was refolved
to go on and fhiifli their Work ; they fufpended
from their Commands the Officers of it, who had
appeared againft them. They nominated a Coun-
cil of Ten, namely, Fleetwood, Lambert, fflbitlocke,
Vane, Dejborougb, Harrington, Sydenbam, Bury,
Sahvay, and Warrefton, to confider of proper W"ays
to carry on the Affairs of Government. They
made, as is faid before, Fleetwood Chief Commander,
and Lambert Major- General of the Forces in Eng-
land and Scotland ; which, fays Whitlocke, much
difcontented Monke. They appointed Fleet-wood,
Lambert, Vane, Dejborougb, Ludloiv, and Bury, to
be a Committee for nominating Officers of the Ar-
my ; and, laftly, they kept a Day of Humiliation in
Whitehall Chapel.
A Committee of The next Thing they did was to conftitute, what
Safety named, they called, A Committee of Safety, confifting of
Twenty-three Perfons ; and that Letters fhould be
fent to every one of them, to' undertake the Truft.
Wbitlocke has preferved the Form of one of thefe
Letters, fent to himfelf, which was as follows :
For
Of E N G L A N D. 3
for our honoured Friend Bulftrode Lord Whitlocke. Inter-regnum.
SIR, Whitehall, 0£t. 27, 1659. J6.5!^
* T T P O N Confideration of the prefent Pofture oacber.
c \^J of Affairs of this Commonwealth, the Ge-
* neral Council of Officers of the Army have
* thought fit to appoint a Committee of Safety, for
* the Prefervation of the Peace, and Management
* of the prefent Government thereof; as alfo for the
' preparing of a Form of a future Government for
* thefe Nations, upon the Foundation of a Com-
« monwealth or Free State : And yourfelf being one
4 of the Perfons nominated for that Purpofe, we do,
* by their Direction, hereby give you Notice thereof,
' and defire you to repair To-morrow Morning, at
« Ten o'Clock, to the Horfe-Chamber in IV bite-
* hall, in order to the Service aforefaid. We reft
Tour faithful Friends and Servant s,
ZANKEY, ALLEN, CREED,
PACKER, ASHFIELD, CLERK,
SALMON, KELSEY, GOUGH,
MILLES, BISCOE, KING.
The faid Author makes a great many Apologies for
his accepting this Office ; and would fain perfuade-
his Readers, That he had no lucrative Views ia
taking of it ; but tr>e Confequences will {hew jb^:
contrary : However, his Rpafom feem to gives u^
fome Light into the fecret Workings of tht ie dari
Times, and therefore take them in his own Words ;
Oftoler 28. « The Committee of Safety were .to
meet, Wbithcke had revolved in his Mind the pre-
fent State of Affairs, that there was no vifible Au-
thority or Power for Government, a^ thjs Time, but •
that of the Army ; that if fome legal Authority were
not agreed upon and fettled, the Armywould pro-
bably take it into their Hands', and govern by the;
Sword, or fet up fome Form pYejudkial to the Right£;
and Liberties of the People, and tor the particula^i
Advantage and Intereft of the Soldiery, more than>:
would be convenient.
Inter-regnum,
1659.
Oftober.
Monkia firft
Letter from Sc
land to the Er.
HJb Army,
4 The Parliamentary HISTORY
* That he knowing the Purpofe of Vane and other*
to be fuch, as to the lefiening of the Power of the
Laws, and fo to change them, and the Magiftracy,
Miniftry, and Government of the Nation, as might
be of dangerous Confequence to the Peace and
Rights of his Country : To prevent- which, and to
keep Things in a better Order and Form, he might
be instrumental in this Employment. Upon thefe
and the like Grounds, as alfo by the Engagement
of divers of the Committee to join with him therein,
he was perfuaded to undertake it, and did meet with
them at the Place appointed, where he was received
by them with all Reipect and Civility.'
This Committee of Safety, we are told, confift-
cd, for the moft part, of Officers of the Army, and
their Creatures, into which our Au':hor fays he
enlifted himfelf for the Public Good : And the firft
Thing we find they did, was to publifh a Declara-
tion from the Army, with the Grounds and Reafons
of their late Proceedings. About this Time, alfo,
came a Letter from General Monke, to thofe Offi-
cers of the Army, declaring his DiflatibfacTiion, and
of thofe that were with him, on the late Turn of
Affairs. This was the firft Smoke perceived of that
Fire, which foon after broke out to fome Purpofe.
And fince the Form of thefe Letters (for there were
three of them) are yet preferved in a Pamphlet of
thefe Times b, in our Colleclion, we (hall give
them at Length :
To the Lord FLEETWOOD.
Right Honourable, Edinburgh, Off. 20, 1659.
Have fent this MefTenger to your Lordfhip, to
let you know that we have received Notice,
Part of the Army have put Force upon the
Par-'
b Called, A Col/effion of Letters and Declarations, &c. fer.t by Ge»
Iteral Monke, &t. Printed at London, in the Tear 1660. This
Collection was certainly rrade and publifhed, foon after the K ing was
reftored, by fome that had a Mind to blacken the General, by expo-
ling his many Declarations to ftand by the Commonwealth. They
are publifhed /imph , without any Remarks upon them j but, by
put'ing the moft ft' iking Words and Paflages in them into Italicks,
and leaving out the Printer's or f-ubliflier's Name, it .muft .have
been dene by Defign, and in a Time of Danger.
«THa
rs i iei
'" ' that a
Of ENGLAND. s
e Parliament, which they fo lately called together Inter- rcgmim.
* and owned with the greateft TeiHmoniesof Obe- l6S9-
* dience and Repentance for their former Apoftacy*
* from them. I hope your Lordfhip will not abet
* an Action of fuch a dangerous and deftru£tive
' Confequence : I know that you love the Liberty
c and Peace of England fo well, that you will ufe
* your beft Care that Attempts of this Nature be
* fupprefled. I do therefore humbly intreat you,
' that the Parliament may fpeedily be reflored to
' that Freedom whrch they enjoyed on the nth
* of this Inftant ; otherwife I am refolved, by the
* Afliftance of God, with the Army under my Com-
* mand, to declare for them, and to profecute this
' juft Caufe to the laft Drop of my Blood. I blefs
' the Lord that the Officers here are very unani-
< mous ; and for fuch. whofe Hearts fail them, or
* which will not a£t according to their Commiflions
' from the Parliament, I having Authority, as one
' of the feven Commiffioners appointed by Act of
< Parliament, do conftitute fuch as are chearful for
'this Good old Caufe, till the Parliament's Pleafure
' be further known. And I do plainly aflure your
' Lordflaip, that I was never better fatisfied ia the
' Juftice of any Engagement than in this. You
' cannot but remember, that God hath already
c fbewed himfelf glorious in it, and determined the
' Quarrel on this Side, againft arbitrary Power of
' raifing Money, without the People's Confent firft
' had, and the Management of the Militia by any
' other than the Parliament. I defire your Lordfhip
' not to be deluded by the fpecious Pretences of any
* ambitious Perfon whatfoever, and do not bring all
' the Blood that will be (bed upon your own Head.
' My Lord, confider how you will anfwer to the
' dreadful God for the Ruin of Three Nations, for to
* ferve a Luft, or to gratify a Paffion. For my parti-
* cular, I am aftiamed of thefe Confufions and Chan-
' ges that we have made, that we are now become a
' Scorn and a Reproach to our very Friends, and de-
< figned to Ruin by all our Neighbours. I take God.
* to witnefs, that I have no further Ends than the
A 3 4efta-
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inter-regnmn. * eftablifhing of Parliamentary Authority, and theft
1659
—— v— »«.
Oflcber.
4 good Laws which our Anceftors have purchafed
' with fo much Blood, the fettling the Nations in a
' free Commonwealth, and the Defence of Godlinefs
* and godly Men, tho' of different Judgment : And
« I take myfelf fo far obliged, being in the Parlia-
' ment's Service, to {land, tho' alone, in this Quar-
* rel. And I doubt not but your Lordlhip, having
< the Fear of God in your Heart, will carefully con-
e fiderof this Matter; which is all at prefent from
Your Excellency* s humble Servant^
GEORGE MONKE, .
To the Lord LAMBERT.
Right Honourable, Edinburgh , Off. 20, 1659,
HAving Notice that a Part of the Army, un-
der the Parliament's Command, have, con-
trary to'their Duty, put Force upon them, I have
therefore fent this Meflenger to your Lordfhtp, to
intreat you to be an Inftrument of Peace and good
Underflanding between the Parliament and Army:
For, if they (hall continue this Force, I am refol-
ved, with the Affiftance of God, and that Part of
the Army under my Command, to ftand by them,
and aiTert their lawful Authority. For, Sir, the
Nation of England will not endure any arbitrary
Power, neither will any true Englijhmant'm the
Army ; fo that fuch a Defign will be ruinous and
deftru&ive : Therefore I do earneftly intreat you,
that we may not be a Scorn to all the World and
a Prey to our Enemies, that the Parliament may
be fpeedily reftored to their Freedom, which they
enjoyed on the uthlnftant. Which is all at pre-
Your Lordjhip's humble Servant^
GEORGE MONKE.
At the fame Time with the former came alfo a.
Letter from Monke, directed to Lenthall, the Speaker
cf the fecluded Parliament j which we fhall add to
the
Of E N G L A N D. 7
the former, as another curious Anecdote of thefe Inter- regnum,
Times:
To the S P E A K E R.
RigJrt Honourable, Edinburgh, Oft. 20, 1659.
' T" Y Aving received Notice that there was a
' J_ JL Force put upon the Parliament on the I2th
' or this Inftant, J have feat this Meffenger to your
' Lordihip, to know whether that Force doth conti-
' nue ; for I am refolved, by the Grace and Affift-
* ance of God, as a true Englijhman, to ftand to
* and alFert the Liberty and Authority of Parlia-
* rnent: And the Army here, praifed be God, is
e very courageous and unanimous ; and I doubt not
* but to give a good Account of this Aclion to you.
« I have, according to your A6t of the I ith Inftant,
« being conftituted a Comfniffioner for the Govern-
e ment of the Army, put out fuch Perfons as wpUld
* not act according to your Commiffion. I do call
' God to witnefs, That the aflerting of a Com*
4 monvvealth is the only Intent of my Heart ; and I
* defire, if poflible, to avoid the {bedding of Blood,
* and therefore intreatyou, that there may be a good
* Underftanding between the Parliament and Army:
' But if they will not obey your Commands, I will
« not defert you, according to my Duty and Promife.
'Which is all at prefent from
Tour bumble and faithful Servant^
GEORGE MONKX
The Committee of Safety eafily forefaw, by the
Purport of thefe Letters, what an Hurricane from
the North was coming upon them 5 and therefore
caft about, with all their Cunning, to prevent the
evil Confequences of fuch a Storm.
Some Perfons were fent to the General to inform
him better of Things, and wire-draw him into their
Schemes of Government. But, at the fame Time,
Lamlert was alfo ordered down to command the
Forces that were quartered at Tork^ and the Nor-
thern Parts of England, with fome more Regiments
with
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with him, in order to ftop, or prevent, any finifter
Defign that Mcnke might have againft them.
^n l^e mean Time the faid Committee appointed
a Sub -Committee, confiding of F&etwood, IVhit-
locke, Vane, Ludlow, Salway^ and Tichburn, to con-
fider of a Form of Government for the Three Na-
tions, as a Commonwealth, and prcfent it to the
former. By a formal Order of State, they alfo
conftituted the Lord Wlntlocke Keeper of the Great
Seal, till further Order ; and this, no doubt, our
Patriot was in Purfuit of, when he came fo readily
into the laft Scheme of Government.
About this Time the Committee of Safety had
more Letters from Edinburgh^ which confirmed
Monke'* Defection from their Party, and that he
and many of his Officers had declared for reftoring
the Parliament : Alfo that he had imprifoned fomq
of them, and cafhiered others, who were of a dif-
ferent Judgment in this Affair.
Dr. Price, the Writer of the Hiftory of the King's
Reftoration, who was Domeftic Chaplain to Ge-
neral Monke before and after this happened, and
who, by his own Account, was moft minutely con-
cerned in every Step that led to it, has left us
fome curious Anecdotes to brighten up the Darknefs
of this whole Proceeding k. We {hall not trace this
Author backwards, where he endeavours to prove,
by many Incidents, that Monke had the Royal Caufe
at Heart long before, and only waited for fuch an
Opportunity as this, to ufe the Doctor's own Words,
* to reftore the King, the Liberties of the Subject,
^nd the Laws of the Realm, to the State they were
in, before our Civil Wars commenced, in the Year
1642.' Allow this AfTertion to be true, yet the
Method Monke took to bring about this Reftoration
was by no Means juftifiable. fmce 'tis certain it was
effected by the Breach of fome Oaths, and the deepeft
Diffimulation. But we fhall only touch upon fuch
material Occurrences as happened after the Gene-
ral's
k The Myjlery and Method of bis Majeftfs happy Reparation laid
open to public View By John Price D D. one of the late Dute of
Albermarle't Chaplains, and privy to all tbefecret fajages and Par.
tt:tt/arit;ct of (bat glorious Rcvaiution, Lend, 3c-;, 1680.
Of E N G L A N D. 9
ral's firft Declaration of his Intentions to march for
London, and reftore the late Fag-End of the Long
Parliament to their former Seats and Power. i
This Author acquaints us, * That the firft Step
the General took after his advancing from Dalkeitb
to Edinburgh, and reforming the Officers there, was He a(jvaBees to
to fend out a Party of Horfe to fecure Berwick ; Edinburgh, and
which came but juft in Time to perform that Ser-fendj f° &i2e
vice, for Col. Gobbet^ fent from Lambert to feize
that Place, entered the Town a few Hours after ;
but was himfelf feized on and fent to the General,
who committed him Frifoner to Edinburgh Caftle.'
Our Author remarks on this, ' That, had not the
General been quick in fruftrating Lambert's Inten-
tions, 'tis probable Cobbet both would and could
have fent him to the fame Place. But now hionke^
having fecured this important Fortrefs, with Edin-
burgh, and fome other Strong- holds in Scotland,
prepared, in Earneft, to march for England.
4 But, not to be more hafty in his March than
Prudence would admit of, and having now fome
Ground to ftand on, he difpatched away the three
Letters directed to Lieutenant-General Fleetwood^
Major-General Lambert^ and Mr. Lenthall, the late
Speaker [before given], in all of which was fignified
his Refolution to reftore the Laws and Liberties;
which Expreffion was conftrued in a larger Senfe
than, adds our Author, might firft have been intend-
ed. The Arrival of thefe Letters in London begot fome
faint Hopes in the Rumpers of a fecond Reftoration
to their Power ; but, adds our Author, mightily fur-
prized the Army Grandees, who neither expected
iuch an Oppofition, nor could they well believe it,
it being fo diredtly contrary to the Intereft of any
Part of the Army to divide againft the reft. But
they were, very foon after, undeceived in this ; and
Lambert fent out towards the North to take upon
him his Command, which was ftill under Fleetwood^
though it was thought that, had Succefs anfwered
his Ambition, the Soldiery would, without much
Difficulty, have created Lambert Dictator in the
Field : For the true $tate of the Queftion was, then,
Whether
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Irter-regnum. Whether a third Prote&or, or the old Parliament
1659. again.
*"T—V^"~1' ' In the mean while Monke kept firm to his Pur-
' pofe, though he met with great Difcouragements at
firft. The Letters he wrote to the Army in Ireland,
to the Officers of the Navy, and to fome particular
Garrifons in England, had no fatisfactory Anfwers
given to any of them ; though another Letter, ad-
dreffed to the City of London, met with better Fate ;
the Citizens were then about coming to their Senfes
again* from which they had been fo long bewilder'd,
and invited Monke to come up and ailiir. in the Caufe
he had efpoufed.' This is Dr. Price 's Account ;
but Whitlncke tells us, ' That when himfelf, Fleet-
wood, Dejborough, and feveral Chief Officers of the
Army, went to the Common Council of the City of
London, and repreiented to them the Proceedings of
Monke, and that the Bottom of his Defign was to
bring in the King upon a new Civil War, {hewed
the Danger of it to the City and Nation, and coun-
felled them to provide for their own Safety, and
that of the whole Commonwealth, by preserving
Peace; the Common Council return'd them Thanks,
and faid they were relblved to follow their Advice.'
Thefe three Speeches, fpoken as above, were
printed at that Time in one lingle Pamphlet ', with-
out any Notes upon them ; a Copy of which is
amongft our numerous Collection of thefe Matters^
and which we ihall add in this Place : And rirft the
Lord IVbitlockes Speech.
My Lord, and worthy Gentlemen,
fabithcle**, < rT">HE Committee of Safety, which are at pre-
fcjJSfr.™* A fent intruded with the Prefervation of the
Speeches in Peace of this Commonwealth, are inform'd of feveral
Guildhall, ton- Matters that relate particularly to the Peace of this
City and Commonwealth: Some PafTages whereof
were lately delivered, particularly to the Court of
Aldermen: But other Matters fmce coming to their
1 Intituled, Three Speeches made to the Right Honourable the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Common .Council of London, by the Lord .Whkr
locke, Lord Fleetwood, and Lcr^Dclborough, at Guildhall1, ' Tuef-
day, No/ 8, 1659 -- London, frir.ted in the Tear 1659.
Of ENGLAND. IT
Knowledge, they thought it requifite to conlmimi- Interregnum
cate it to the Reprefentative of this honourable and 1659-
worthy City for their Advice, and to fhew the Af- t-L|J~*'~ — J
fe&ions they particularly have thereunto, which 1 0> ' "*'
ftuill impart with P'ainnefs^
4 I fhall fay nothing in Commendation of that
Blefling, Peace, which you all know, being fenfible
of the Calamities and Troubles of a Civil W'ar.
You were once pleafed to make ufe of the Army$
and with Thankfulnefs acknowledge the Good and
Benefit received by them i and this honourable City
contributed to that Work, for refcuing of their Li-
berties, as Men and Chriftians. It pleafed God to
give us Peace ; but the old Enemy, when he could
not appear in his own Strength, fought then, by
Difguife aftd underhand Means, to interrupt it.
Thelnfuneclicn of Sir George Baotb pretended fpe-
cious Matters, which are fince made plain, and their
Intentions difcovered, which were only to reduce us
to Slavery under Tyranny ; but they were lately
defeated : Now others are fprung up of the like Na-
ture. The Rancour of the old Enemy is fuch,
that he ufeth all Means imaginable to interrupt
our Peace, and particularly in the City, knowing
the Greatnefs, Populoufnefs, and Wealth of it.
All of you may be fenfible of the great Calami-
ties that will follow if your Peace be diiturb'd,
which hitherto hath been preferved, and you have
been free from A£ls of Hoilility. I (hall propound
fomewhat for Prevention : What Man of fober Prin-
ciples, or fearing God, will hazard his Peace upon
fpecious groundlefs Pretences? In Sir George Booth's
Buiinefs there was a Defign to caufe a Rifing in the
City; that, upon aDivihon among yourfelves, Men
of defperate Fortunes, joining with your Enemies,
might have the Rifling of your City. As it was
their chief Defign to raife Divifion, fo the fame is
now on Foot ; the Committee of Safety have Intel-
ligence to that Purpofe ; but, alas ! thofe happy
Days and Bleflings we have received have not been
fo improved by us, that we fhould have any Hope
of the Continuance of that Ulefiing, Peace.
It
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fcter-regnum. ' It is evident, by Letters taken from private
1659. Meflengers, that General Monke did fend to feve-
*— "V— -^ ral Parties to rife at this Time, and that in this
' City he fliould have a Party to declare for him ;
but if it (hould pleafe God that fuch a Thing mould
be, the dreadful Confequences thereof are inex-
prefiible. The Committee defires you would take
Care of the Prefervation of the Peace and Safety
of the City, wherein the Safety of the Common-
wealth is greatly concerned ; you have been fuffi-
ciently informed of the Mifery that follows fuch
Difturbances. There is nothing that concerns the
Committee fhall be omitted, but that they will con-
tribute the utmoft of their Endeavours to prevent
fuch Difturbances, and are refolved not willingly to
be deficient in what they may do for the Preferva-
tion of your Peace and Safety ; for they have a par-
ticular Refpecl: and Affection to this worthy City,
and defire, where any Ground or Occafion is given
of DifTention, it may be laid afide ; and whatever
People may cenfure of what is paft, let us look for-
ward, and it will be made appear that their Aim is,
that Magiftracy and a godly Miniftry may be encou-
raged and fupported. The Committee therefore
defire, that you would take efpecial Care to forbid
any Meetings that tend to the fetting on Foot the
Defign of the Enemy.
' There were feveral Letters from the North read
Yefterday, which certify, That thofe which are
coming in hoftile Manner thought to have taken
Newcaftle^ but were prevented. A diligent Care is
taken about thefe Things in other Places. I will
only inftance that of a Divine, That where a great
City is divided, great Miferies may be expected ;
therefore hazard not your Safety, whatever fpecious
Pretences may be offered to you.
' I defire that thefe Things may be taken into
Confideration, and that you would not be wanting
to the Caufe and your own Safety, which you have
fo long owned.'
Then
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Then the Lord Fleetwood fpoke as follows : Xnter-regmwi*
w
E are once more to wait upon you, truly J659*
with Defire and fincere Intentions, that *^w^!
November.
there may be a light Underftanding between thofe
in Authority in this City, and the Armies of thefe
Nations, as hath formerly been, and that they may
fiill remain an united Body ; for the Common Enemy
labours all he can to ruin and deftroy both ; and
their only Means to accomplifh their Defign is
Divifion ; and there is nothing fo much as that can
difunite old Friends.
* The City and Army had once the Happinefs to
efteem one another as Friends ; but now if any
thing give Occafion of Diftruft, it will prejudice
the Caufe. You know this poor Army the Lord
hath been pleafed to mak» ufe of as an Inftrument
to preferve our Peace, fo often attempted againft :
And we fhould render ourfelves to be unworthy of
the Name of Friends, if we fhould feck ourfelves,
and not the Good of this poor Nation, and to get
Rule and Dominion to ourfelves, and fland not to.
our Principles. Thefe Things are frequent Dif-
courfes ; but if we had that Guilt which is caft
upon us, we would not appear in fo Honourable an
Aflembly. I dare fay our Defign is God's Glory :'
We have gone in untrodden Paths, but God hath
led us into Ways, which, if we Jcnow our own
Hearts, we have no bafe or unworthy Defign in.
Turnings and Changes are not pleafmg to us ; we
have a Love to this Caufe, and God hath blefs'd us
in it. It may appear that we have no Defign to rule
over others ; we have been raifed and preferred *a
this Day upon common Account, and that your
and our Liberty may not be violated, although we
.have been cenfured, it hath been the Defign of our
Hearts, if we appear defigning, to be no other than
for the Good of this Nation. We (hall not want
Enemies; but God will fight with us ; jet our
Friends bear with us and obferve the Event.
4 Nothing hath been more dear to us, than when
God hath appeared to us to continue Friendfhip and
Peace
$4 Tfo Parliamentary HISTORY
Peace, that fo we may be helpful one to another.
Our Enemies know the City hath more Love to
this Caufe, than to comply with their fpecious Pre-
tences. And whereas it is laid to our Charge, that
we are Enemies to Parliaments ; God he knows
our Defign is to preferve the Ends of all Parlia-
ments and Authority ; and, we hope, fhall never
appear to take away the Rights we have fo long
con tended, for.. The great End of the Common
Enemy is to ruin the City ; yet, by the Help of
God, we {ball ftudy your Prefervation. We hope
that there may be a right Underftanding betwixt the
Forces in the Northern Expedition ; it (hall not be
wanting in us that the fame may fo be. Altho*
it is our Portion that we cannot be more odious to
our Friends than we are rendered, concerning the
Nation's Peace, yet there fhall he nothing wanting
in us for the Settlement thereof: I would not have
you to believe us fo unworthy Perlbns, for we have,
no Defign, but that Peace, Holinefs, snd Juftice,
jnay proiper in this City and Nation.'
Laftly, the Lord Dejborougb made the- following
gpeech :
> TT Was unwilling to fpeak any Thing, fo much
JL having been ipoken by thofe Honpurabje Per-
fpns; butifomewhat I rnuft fpeak in relation to what
•was hinted, and touching the Commands .of the
Committee of Safety 2 A great Senfe there is upon
the Committee of the Difficulties thia Nation ftrug-
gles under, which are the greater, becaufe the
Compon Enemy is in Forwardnefs to a Birth, and
Bringing-forth. It.ia the Duty of aU Men, as Chri-
ilians and as Englijhmen^ to value Peace the greateft
of outward Enjoyments ; what I faid may be looked
upon as {trance, from one brought up for feverai
Years in martial Affairs ; it being conceived of us,
as of fome in the Beginning of thefe Troubles, that
they feared nothing more than that the Wars wouJ.4'-
cnd too foon ; it was the Wrickednefs f f thofe Men
that .had fuQh .Principles, rather to. eiatify filthy
Lufts
Of ENGEAND, 15
Lufts in their Hearts, than for any Good to the Inter-regnum.
Commonwealth. l659-
' I hope I may fay of the Generality of the Of- jT"""VT""*
ficers intruded in this Nation, that there is no out-
ward Thing more defired by them, than to live to
fee thofe biefled Foundations laid, fa as to focure
the Civil and Spiritual Rights of this Nation ; nor is
there any greater Dread in them thereof, (notwith-
ftanding t;hat Blood-fhed and Expence they have
undergone) than that they (hall not fee a Settlement;
yet we hope in God, in Defpight of the Cunning of
Men, we fhall fee fuch a blefied Peace, as the In-
habitants of this Nation may blefs his Name.
* There is none ignorant that there are not want-
ing Men, who, on various Accounts, make it thei*
Bufmefs'to hinder this fo good a Work ; and their
Defign is to oppofe or interrupt a Work the Pro-
vidence of God is carrying on, to accomplifli their
Defigns.
4 It is a Mercy, whatever others judge, God hath
borne us Witnefs, that we have not falfified that
Truft which hath been repofed in our Hands. Our
Difficulties have been fuch, that the Wealth of
the City mould not hire us to undergo them a Year
longer ; but we may fay, we are not without a Mif-
reprefentarion.
« Some fay we are fetting up Sectaries, this Party
and that Party ; but if we have Guile in.our Hearts,
and have not a Love to the godly People of thi$
Nation, yea, to all the People, God will find u$
out. God hath biefled fome of us with a Spirit of
Integrity, and there is nothing upon our Hearts
but the Good of the Whole.
' There is a two-fold Party in this Common^
wealth, whom God hath again and again mada
bow down before bis People, yet are ftill labouring
to heighten their Spirits ; we have not made them
Slaves, (which in fome Places is pra£lifed in the like
Cafe) nor is it upon our Spirits fo to do ; yet I think
it our Duty not to fuffer them to give Laws to us,
if God gives us Leave to prevent it ; and tho' we
have it not in our Hearts to do any Thing todiftin-
Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum, guifli, yet we are refolved never to put our Hands
|* • under the Feet of thofe we have vanquiftied.
NcvcnJberT ' Some fay we (hall not have Seitlement till the
old Family comes in, vhich if it mould enter intd
any of our Hearts, we fhould be like the Dog re-
turning to his Vomit, and the Sow to her wallow-
ing in the Mire.
' Many, by the AdTings of the Army, by a for*
cible Providence they have been put upon, may
think we go about to do fomething unworthy to this
'Nation. This Army hath been blefled feventeen
Years wonderfully, we have not gone about to
make ourfelves great, or Matters of what is our
Neighbours, but that which the Power in Being
bath allowed us.
* Some give out as if we were returning to a
Single Perfon, and intended to debafe Magittracy,
jind trample down Miniftry ; but God will bear us
Witnefs to the contrary : The Truth of it is, we
are fo far from undervaluing of a Government, that
we always thought a bad one with Peace, better
than none at all;
' If Peace be a great and choice Bleffing to be
valued by all, we defire that you, with us, will
take Care to preferve it ; we come not to court you,
but only to let you know we have no Defign in it.j
it was no prepared Bufmefs : That of difiblving the
Parliament, we hope that God flood by us in it$
jiotwithftanding there hath been many gloomy Days
fmce. The Strength of an Army is the Unity of
it, and it will be your Safety and Advantage to keep
Unity ; A City divided cannot lland : You will not
want Affiftance from the Army, jf Interruptions
come in this Place, whatever Calamities may be
elfewhere, they .will not be fo great here. Your
intereft as Chriftians, your Religion, your !Eftates>
are great Engagements to preferve Peace.
' The Defire of the Army is to preferve the
Peace ; if you go .about, or others countenanced,
t>y you, to difturb it, an .Inconvenience may fall
upon you; ;but our Defire is, you would not fling
Dirt p# the Army > but as jpu fee the lilue of their
Of ENGLAND. 17
Actions, fo to judge of them. Many Opinions may inter-regnuia,
run touching our dark Actions in the late Altera- 1659-
tion and Difturbance. As to the firft, it is evident *— ~- J
they had no Defign of their own ; and in the laft,
if they would have complied with a few Men to fet
them up, they needed not to have wanted Refpe£fc,
It is faid it was only to keep eight or nine in their
Places ; it is very well known fome of us have
laboured an Opportunity to be quit of our Com-
mands ; now it is my Defire that you would follow
after Peace, and meddle not with Affairs beyond
your Spheres ; follow Peace and Holinefs, and the
God of Peace will blefs you.'
By this Time feveral Letters had patted to and Mo*** agrees «>
fro, between the Committee of Safety and General a Treat/' which
TI /r i -ti in »-r-> i i- comes to no -
Monke; till, at laft, a Treaty was agreed on to fettle thing.
Matters on a better Bads. Monke named and fent
but three of his own Officers as Commiffioners to
treat, who were to meet as many of Fleet-wood's at
London. Monkis Commiffioners coming to York,
met Lambert's there; and fo far fatisfied him, fays
Whitlocke, of Mcnke's Intentions for Peace, that
Lambert fent Orders to flop his Forces from march-
ing further Northward. But this is different from
what Dr. Price writes, who tells us, * That Lam-
bert made all the Hafte he could Northward,
with what Forces could be fpared at home ; and
taking in more, which lay conveniently for him in
the Country, after the Defeat of Sir George Booth *
he arrived at Newcaftle in November* with an Army
of about 12,000 Men; wherein were, as it was
reported, adds the Doctor, 7000 of the chiefeft
Cavalry. Infomuch that a Meflenger from the
Committee of Safety, fent to found Monke's Inten-
tions, told fome of his Army, in the Doctor's
Hearing, That the Lord Lambert was coming upon
them, and that all Monke's Army would not be
enough for a Breakfaft for them : To which he had
a fmart Anfwer returned, That Lambert had a very
good Stomach this cold Weather, if he could eat
Pikes and fwallow gullets.*
Voi. XXIL £ The%
1 8 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Thefe Commiflioners from Gen. Monke brought
with, them the following Letter to Fleetwood: m
To Ms Excellency the Lord FLEET WOOD,
My Lord ', Edinburgh ^ Nov. 3, 1659.
«•* A FTER I had anfwered the Letter your
' JL\. Lordfhip did me the Favour to Tend me by
' Col. Talbot) I received another from your Lord-
* fliip, of the 2gth of Oftdber^ wherein your Lordftiip
' is pleafed to exprefs much of your Lordfhip's Affec-
' tion and Friendfhip to me, for which I fhall ever
' acknowledge myfelf engaged to you ; but, truly,
* I muft affure your Lordfhip, no perfonal Difcou-
' ragements, altho' I have had my Share of them,
* have induced me to the JufHfication I make of the
' Parliament's Authority, but the Tie of Duty to
* which I am in my Conscience obliged ; and I fhall
' be heartily forry if your Lordfhip makes any other
4 Interpretation of it, for your Lordfhip knows my
' Command has been offered often up to thofe that
' had Power to place it better.
' We are all, I blefs the Lord, very unanimous
' here; and, I am confident, when the Gentlemen
' we fend from hence have given your Lordfhip a
* true Underftanding of our Actions, you will not
' have fo fevere an Opinion of them, as you feern
* to have in your late Letters. The Perfons Names
< are Col. Wilkes, Lieut. Col. Clob«ry> and Major
* Knight, all well known to yourLordmip ; to whom
' I befeech your Lordfhip to give Credit in what they
e (hall propofe from the Army here ; and I befeech
' you to believe I am ftill, with a fincere Heart,
My Lord,
Tour Lordjhlp's
Very bumble Servant,
GEORGE MONKE.
The
n» This we give from a Pamphlet of thefe Times, intituled, A t rue
Narrative of the Proceedings in Parliament, Council of State, General
Council of the Army, and Committee of Safety, from the lid of Sep-
tember untill tbit prefent Time. London, printed by John Red-
Xiayne, in LtvoTs-Ceurt, in Pater-nifier-MW, 1659,
O/* ENGLAND. 19
The Treaty being begun at London, by Com- inter-regnusn.
imiffioners on both Sides, it was agreed by them, l659»
' Thar a Committee of nineteen fhould be appoint- T""""*VT
• J V - •* t * » * i r i November.
ed, five for England, not Members of the Army,
and five for Scotland ; the reft, for all the Three
Nations, were to be Officers of the Army : Thefe
were to determine of the Qualifications of Mem*
bers of Parliament. That two Field-Officers of
every Regiment, one Commiffion- Officer of every
Garrifon, and ten Officers of the Fleet, ftiould
meet as a General Council, to advife touching the
Form of Government.' Thefe Articles were ac-
tually agreed to by the Commiffioners on both Sides,
and a Copy of them fent away to Monke for his Ra-
tification.
But what had like to have proved the Rum ot
all the Scheme, as Dr. Price obferves, ended in
the Ruin of others ; for, all the Time this Treaty
was fubfifting, Monke was going on in new model-
ling his Army, turning out fufpe&ed Officers, and
bringing the whole Corps over entirely to his De-
votion. Though there were not wanting others
in London, who advifed, in the Committee of Safe-
ty, to write to Lambert to advance with all his
Forces fpeedily to Monke, and attack him before he
was better provided ; for they began now to fufpe<5t
the Reality of Monke's Intentions, fays IVhttlocke^
and believed rather that he only fought Delays ;
both Armies lying inactive, one at Newcq/lle and
the other at Edinburgh, all this Time, without,
feemingly, doing any thing to the Purpofe.
About the Middle of this Month, General Monke He calls a Con-
thought fit to call a Convention of the Eftates invention of
Scotland, to meet at Edinburgh ; where he Wi^'tt^-forT*
fore them the Grounds of his Quarrel, requiring3
their peaceable Deportment during his Abfence,
and the Payment of what they were in Arrear to
him for his Army ; he having, on the Account of
the Poverty of their Country, foreborne them long.
This Requeft they readiiy complied with ; but when
B 2 thr*
2O The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. the Scots moved to have Arms allowed them t»
defend themfelves againft Lambert^ and others, in
his Abfence, he would not grant it, as being too
early and dangerous a Step, becaufe his own Men
were not to be difobliged : Befides, the two Ar-
mies were not yet fo far exafperated as to force
him, in Defpair, to take in thofe who were Enemies
to both. This was a refined Piece of Policy, and
fropp'd the Mouths (fays Dr. Price) of the Gene-
ral's invidious Adverfaries, who were wont to be
continually prating, as if the Scots Nation would
foori be in Arms againft them, were they once left
to themfelves.
In the mean while the Committee at Wallingford-
Houfe^ as they are often called, were driven to great
Straits ; their Finances were very low, and no
Means left to raife more, but by the Sword ; their
Army, therefore, muft be foon unpaid, and left to
Free- Quarter; which Sort of Guefts could not be
endured long, The late dilbanded Parliament, as
if they forefaw their Doom, had pafled an A£l to
make it High Treafon to levy Money without the
Confent of Parliament ; by which they were en-
tirely cut out from raifing any, but by arbitrary
Proceedings ; which they durft not attempt, for
fear, in thefe dangerous Times, of difobliging the
whole Nation.
On the other Hand, Msnke had got pretty good
Supplies in Scotland, enough to encourage his Men
to proceed, and feekfor better Quarters in the South;
but the Time of their marching thither he purpofely
delayed, for his Bufinefs was to protract it as much
as poffible; which Lambert's Inactivity at Neivcajlle
e.ve him great Scope to do. It was certainly this
eneral's Bufinefs to advance and fallupon Monke
without Delay; but there he loitered, deftitute
both of Money and Authority, when fudden Action
was his only true Intereft. But (fays the Doctor)
it was the Almighty's good Time to difappoint the
Strong, to infatuate their Councils, and to fow
Scads of Strife and Divifion amongft them.
Monh
Of ENGLAND. 21
Monks having now had Time to new-model his inter-regnum.
Army to his own Mind, began his March towards . 1659.
England, and came to Berwick about the 20th of V"" '«"" **
this Month, tho' the News of his fetting forward Deccmber-
did not reach London till the 28th. He had found And advances
Means to break the Treaty of Pacification, then on towards England
foot, by defiring fame Articles of it to be further v;ith his Army.
explained, and abfolutely refufing to ratify fome
others. But ftill he fet forward with mighty Pro-
teftations of his adhering firmly to the Intereft of
the Parliament, as it fat the I ith of Qttober laft,
when Lambert turned them out of Doors. He;
alfo wrote Letters to Fleet-wood, full of Compli-
ments and Expreffions of his earneft Defire of a
fpeedy Settlement of the prefent Differences : And
becaufe he perceived in the Agreement, figned by
Fleetwood, that there were fome Things remaining
untreated of, and unagreed upon, it was the Refolu-
tion of him and his Officers to add two more to the
Number, to have Conference with the like Number
to be appointed here, to put a final End to the Bu-
fmefs, which he defired might be as foon as pof-
fible.
* Upon Confederation of this Letter, fome of the
Committee of Safety declared their Opinions, That
this was only a Delay in Monke to gain Time, and
be the better prepared for his Defign to bring in the
King, and to bring the Army here and their Party
into more Straits for want of Pay, which he had got
for his Forces : And therefore advifed to fall upon
Monke prefently, to bring the Matter to an Ifiue,
before his Soldiers were more confirmed, and Fleet-
wood 's Party difcouraged. But this Advice was not
taken, but a new Treaty confented to by Commif-
fioners on each Part to be at Newcaflle*
December. But to leave thefe foolifli Treaties,
\vhich were never defigned for any thing but to
amufe, the General marched, his Army from Ber-
vj-ick to Coldjiream and Kelfo ; and here they fixed
for fome Time, in Expectation of Events : What
Lambert^ what the excluded Parliament, and what
B 3 the
22 The Parliamentary HISTORY
inter-regnum. the concealed Lord Fairfax would do, who lay
1659- darking in and about York, and Nobody knew what
t- ^w— *J to make of him. ' And now (fays Dr. Price) we
December, £OUght in Paper, by fending and receiving Meflages,
laying aftde Powder and Shot, as dangerous Things,
and not fit to be employed againft Brethren : Yet
we were not fo carelefs as to neglect our own Se-
curity ; for had Lambert marched againft us thro*
the Snows, he would have found a Battalion of
Horfe and Foot, commanded by Col. Morgan^
drawn up ready to receive him.
* In this Situation we were, (adds the Doctor)
when very comfortable News throng'd in upon us ;
as, That the growing Party in the Irijh Army had
declared for us, and were ready to lend us Afiift-
ance ; that Portfmouth had opened her Gates to
Hafilrigge, Morley, and Walton, three of the late Par-
liament's Commiffioners for governing the Army ;
Col. Wetbam, the Governor of it, did this, as weli
in Refpecl to the General, as his Duty to the Par-
liament ; that the Fleet under Lawjon had owned
Monkc's Quarrel againft the Army ; and that the
dark Lord Fairfax had at laft unveiled himfelf, had
raifed Men, and was to fall upon Lambert's Rear,
fhould he advance againft Mcnke's Army ; affuring
us, That, whatever came on it, he would not fail
being ready to affift us by the Fh ft of January next j
which he performed better than his Word.
' The Stream of this good News did not hinder the
General from continuing his wonted Care of keep-
ing a good Guard ; it being now evident, That,
•within a few Days, Lambert muft either fight or tall.
The Soldiers were much revived at thefe glad Ti-
dings, and hoped foon to change their prefent cold
Quarters for warmer and better Accommodations."
Dr. Price, in his Narrative, here ftops to make a
Reflection of his own ; which, fince it lays open a
Very private Scene between his General and him-
felf, we fhall give it in his own Words ; fpeaking of
the former good Account of Affairs, he adds,
< As
Of E N G L A N D. 23
•' As for myfelf, I muft confefs, that I was in- Inter-regnum.
wardly difpleafed at thefe many favourable Expref- 1659.
fes j as apprehending that this Name of a Parlia- ' — -V"'-'
ment would, by nominating and fhifting Commit December«
iloners for it, engage the Army fo much to their
Devotion, and get fuch other Advantages of fixing
their Oligarchy, that it would be no eafy Matter to
difpoflefs them. With thefe foolifh Whimftes in
my Head, I was refolved to fteal privately to the
General, (who had caution'd me before- hand not
to be feen to appear in thefe public Tranfaclions)
and to do this, .1 knew between Midnight and the
Morning to be the only Time : So between Two
and Three o'Clock, by the Help of a Corporal, I
came to his Chamber Door, found it only latched,
the General in his Cloaths, his Head laid on the
Side of the Bed, and his Body refting upon two
Stools, or a Form, Fire and Candles being in the
Room. He awakened at my fir ft Entrance ; I de-
fired his Pardon, and he kindly gave Liberty of
Speech. Upon my reprefenting to him what I
judged to be his Intereft and Duty, that is to fay,
the reftoring of our known Laws, (for I never ufed
to fpeak in any other Terms) I cannot forget his
Paffion and his Pofture : ' Mr. Price , faid he, I
4 know your Meaning, and I have known it ; by the
' Grace of God I will do it, if ever I can find it in my
* Power, and I do not much doubt but that I fb.aH.'
So clofing my Hands in both his-he lifted them up,
and devoutly uttered, ' By God's Help I will do it.'
' I then took the further Liberty to mind him of
the Papers he had figned, to ftand to this Parliament
as it fat the nth of Ottober^ and no other; and of
feveral other Reftri&ions, which he had needlefly,-
as I conceived, put upon himfelf. He anfwered me
with fome Regret, ' You fee who are about me, and
* write thefe Things : I muft not fhew any Diflike
* of them ; I perceive they are jealous enough of me
' already :' Bidding me not to look upon it as any
Act of his. Having thus difcourfed him of divers
Things which I thought might be for his Service,
(he courteoufly allowing me the Freedom) I left
him
24 *&>s "Parliamentary HISTORY
him to his fhort Reft ; for he was to be early at
Bufinefs. And thus I became further fatisfied at
what Port he aimed ; however then and afterwards,
December. ^.^ ^ WindSj he fteered hb Courfe<>
Affairs now began to ripen very faft ; for, as foon
as Monks perfectly underftood that there were like
to be powerful Diverfions in the South ; that Hafel-
rigge and his Party were a&ually in Poffeffion of
Port/mouth^ and had given out Orders and were
obeyed, he fuddenly turned the Tables upon Lam-
bert, and fent him Word he fhould enter into no
more Treaties with him, till he had confulted his
Brethren at Pcrtfmouth, and obtained their Confent
for it; Lambert^ by this, found he had been fooled
all this while ; vented his Refentment againft Monke
and his Officers, and imprifoned him who brought
him the MefTage, Very foon after Lambert's fhort
Reign was at an End ; he was difpofiefled of his
Command, by Order of the Reftored Parliament,
and fkulk'd away from ^ewcq/ile^ in Difguife, in
order to fave himfelf.
But, before that happened, the Committee of
Safety kept their Seats, as ufual, and gave out Or-
ders, though often perplexed with faucy Petitions ;
particularly one from the City of London^ deftrisg
to have fuch a Parliament as was in 1642; but
this was laid afide, fays Whitlocke, as a Defign to
bring in the Common Enemy. The General Coun-
cil of the Officers of the Navy alfo petitioned them,
That Writs might be ifiued out for a new Election
of Parliament Men. But this Committee of Safety,
anxious to continue their Power fafe to themfelves,
had devifed and agreed to a Form of Government,
which they hoped would pleafe every one : And
this Scheme was contained in the following fhort
Articles: That there be no Kingfhip ; no Single
Perfon as Chief Magiftrate ; that an Army be con-
tinued ; no Jmpofition upon Confcience ; no Houfe
of Peers ; the Legiflativc and Executive Powers to
be in diftincl Hands ; Parliaments to be elected by
the People. Upon this laft Article the General
Council of Officers, of the Armies and Fleet of
the
Of ENGLAND v$
the Three Nations, voted, « That a Parliament be Inter-regn
called before February next, to fit and ad according l659-
to fuch Qualifications as are or {hall be agreed V^jT~>vT"
upon, and may beft fecure the juft Rights, Liber-
ties, and Privileges, both Civil and Religious, of
the People of this Commonwealth V So that, by
this laft Reftri&ion, the People were to chufe the
Members of Parliament, not fuch as they liked
themfelves, but fuch as were dictated to them by
the Army.
But all thefe fine-fpun Schemes and Forms of
Government came to nothing ; a fuperior Hand
was over the Directors of them, and turned all their
Projects into Water : Nay, tho' the Officers of the
Armies defired the Committee of Safety to iflfue out
Writs for electing a new Parliament, to fit in Ja-
nuary next, a (horter Date, and fome Writs, ft hit -^
locks tells us, he fealed himfelf ; yet Monkis pre-
vailing Arguments got the better of all, and drove
them like ChafF before the Wind.
Indeed thefe might well be called Hurling Times ;
a Term made ufe of fome Centuries ago, in the
Courfe of this Work, on much the fame Occafion.
No Quiet was enjoyed by any Party ; all were at
Work, and the King's Party very active. Wh'itlocke
tells us, ' That, now, every Man was guided by
his own Fancy and Intereft ; thofe in Employment,
or Power, moft obnoxious to Trouble ; that many
wifhed themfelves out of thefe daily Hazards, but
knew not how to get free of them, the Diftra&ions
were fo ftrangely high, and daily increafmg.'
To fliew the Reader what a Part our Memorialift
acted in this Scene of Affairs, and how, like a
hunted Fox, when the Cry came clofe upon him,
he fkulk'd and fought about for Refuge, we (hall
only fubjoin his own Words ; and truly, confider-
ing the Character of this Man quite through thefe
Troubles, and how ready he was ever to ferve the
Side that was uppermoft, he may, in this Affair, be
eafily believed. Speaking, as he always does in
. the
fc Wkit'.vckes Memoirs, p. 6.91.
26 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-rcgnum. the fecond Perfon, of the prefent Diftra&ions, he
l659- proceeds thus :
December. t Thefe paffages perplexed Whitlocke, as Well
as others, if not more, he all along fufpecting
Monkis Defign. The Lord Wllloughby^ Alderman
RobinfoHj Ad. G. Brown, Mr. Loe, and others,
came to him, and confirmed his Sufpicion in this
. „ r Particular : and propounded to him to go to Fleet-
A Conference * i •/- i • r i c \ • \ \
between Fleet- wood, and to advile him to lend forthwith to the
•uWand 0^/Y-King at Breda, to offer to bring him in upon good
£d«boutbring-T d thereby to get before-hand with Monke,
Ing in the King. ' . . . . < . . b . , . . T, .
who queftionlefs did intend to bring in the King.
Wbitlocke, upon ferious Thoughts of this, went to
Fleetwood, and they had a long private Difcourfe
together, wherein Whitlocke told him, ' That, by
the Defire of his Brother, Sir William Fleetivood,
and of the Lord Willoughby^ M. G. Brown, Alder-
man Robinfon, Mr. Loe, and others, he was come
to difcourfe freely with him about their prefent Con-
dition, and what was fit to be done in fuch an Exi-
gency as their Affairs were now in. That it was
more than evident that Monkeys Defign was to
bring in the King, and that without any Terms for
the Parliament Party ; whereby all their Lives and
Fortunes would be at the Mercy of the King and
his Party, who were fufficiently enraged againft
them, and in Need of repairing their broken For-
tunes:
' That the Inclinations of the Prefbyterian Party
generally, and of many others, and of the City, and
moft of the Parliament's old Friends, were the fame
Way, and a great Part of the Soldiery :
* And that thefe here were revolted from Fleet-
wood, as thofe in the North under Lambert, and
thofe at Portsmouth, and other Places :
' That Monke would eafily delude Hafilrigge,
and the reft of the old Parliament Men ; and that all
the infenfed Lords and fecluded Members would
be, and were, aclive in this Defign; fo thatWhit/oc&e
laid, the Coming-in of the King was unavoidable,
and that he thought, being that ruuft be, that it was
more
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more Prudence for Fleetwood and his Friends to be Inter-regnuna.
the Inftruments of bringing him in, than to leave it
to Monke :
' That, by this Means, Fleetwood might make
Terms with the King for the Prefervation of him-
felf and his Friends, and of that Caufe, in a good
Meafure, in which they had been engaged ; but if
it were left to Monke^ they, and all that had been
done, would be left to the Danger of Deftru&ion.
' Whitlocke therefore propounded to Fleetwood to
do one of thefe two Things, either to give Order
for all his Forces to draw together, and nimfelf and
his Friends to appear at the Head of them, and fee
what Strength they could make that would ftand by
them ; and accordingly to take further Refolutions
if they found their Strength but fmall, as Whitlocke
doubted ; then, with thofe few he had, to go to the
Tower and take PofTeffion of it ; and to fend to the
Mayor and Common Council of London^ that they
would join with them to declare for a free Parlia-*
ment ; which he thought the City would willingly
do, and furnifti him with Money for his Soldiers,
which would encreafe their Numbers.
' Fleetwood afk'd IVhitlocke^ If he would go with
him into the Field and to the Tower ? Wbitlocke
faid he would. Fleetwood then afk'd, What was
the other Way that he had to propound to him in
this Exigency ? Wbitlocke anfwered, It was this :
' That Fleetwood fhould immediately fend away
fome Perfon of Tru-ft to the King at Breda^ to offer
to him his and his Friends Service to the reftoringof
the King to his Right, and that upon fuch Terms as
the King fhould agree upon : And, for this Purpofe,
to give Inftru&ions to the Party whom Fleetwood
fhould fend upon this Affair.
' Fleetwood then afk'd Wbitlocke, If he would be
willing to go himfelf upon this Employment? Who
anfwered, That he would go, if Fleetwood thought
good to fend him. And, after much other Dif-
courfe to this Effect, Fleetwood feemed fully fatis-
iied to fend Whitlocke to the King, and defired
Whithcke to go and prepare himfelf forthwith for
the
a8 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter- regnum. the Journey : And that, in the mean Time, Fleet-
l65fr wood and his Friends would prepare the Inftrudioris
PeTmb"r ^Of k*m ' ^° *^at ^e "^g^t begin h'8 Jourrtey this
Evening, or 7\>morrow Morning early.
' Whitlocke^ going away from Fleetwood, met
Vane, Dejborough, and Bury in the next Room,
coming to fpealc with Fleetwood, who thereupon
defired Whitlocke to ftay a little j and Whitlocke
fufpe&ed what would be the IfTue of their Conful-
tation : And within a Quarter of an Hour Fleetwood
came to Whitlocke^ and, in much Paflion, faid to him3
* I cannot do it, I cannot do it.' Whitlocke defirecj
his Reafons why he could not do it ? He anfwered,
* Thefe Gentlemen have remembered me, and it
* is true, that I am engaged not to do any fuch
* Thing without my Lord Lambert's Confent.'
* Whitlocke replied, ' That Lambert was at too
great a Diftance to have his Confent to this Bufi-
nefs, which mufl be inftantly a£ted.'
' Fleetwood again faid, ' I cannot do it without
* him.' Then Wklthcke faid, ' You will ruin your-
* felf and your Friends.' He faid, * I cannot help it.'
Then Whitlocke told him, He muft take his Leave ;
and {b they parted.*
But to go on with more material Affairs, and
leave this Weathercock, for a while, to fhift about
with the Wind : The daily Revolts from this new-
erected Council made them forefee their own De-
ftru&ion, if they flood in the Gap any longer, and
hindered the Parliament from refuming their old
Seats in the Houfe. Accordingly,
The Parliament This Day, December 26, the Speaker, and
ecftored. Members of Parliament then in Town, met at
Whitehall, from whence they proceeded to the Par-
liament Houfe, on Foot -, thofe very Soldiers fhout-
ing as they now pafs'd by, who, but a little more
than two Months ago, by Force fliut them out of
the Houfe.
The late tlifcarded Members having re-aflumed
their Seats and Power, we find their Journals begin
Of ENGLAND. 29
again, and proceed without the leaft Notice being
taken of the Interruption in them. We fhall there-
fore abftracl: from thence whatever feems to the Pur-
pofe, and explain it by, and conned it with, the : ecen"*r*
Hiftories of the Times afterwards.
But before we enter on the Proceedings of this
other Seflion, of what we (hall now call a Parlia-
ment, tho' it was compofed of no more than the
fame Number, and the fame identical Perfons that
fat laft, we (hall give our Readers an Account of
another Pufh Mr. Prynne and his Colleagues made
to get into the Houfe, and fit among them. He
tells us, « That when Lenthall^ their Speaker, with
the other Members, found that they might have
Leave, from their Matters, to meet again, they
affembled at Whitehall juft fo many as to make a
Houfe : And late in the Evening, on December 26,
marched from thence, by Torch and Candle-light,
through Channel-Row^ to the Parliament Houfe*
There they fat a good while, he fays, and made
fome Orders about the Army to raife Money for
them, and then adjourned till next Morning. — But
the reft of this Affair take in Mr. Prynne's own
Words :
« On Tuefday Morning, the 2yth of December, p^ww's fecohd
they made Hafte early to the Houie, whereof, and Account of his
of the former Night's Praaice, fome faithful Mem-^ne.refufed.
bers of the Houfe (now eleven Years fecluded by^e ST.' M
Force) having Notice, as many of them as could
fuddenly get together, judged it their Duty (now that
the Houfe feemed, by an admirable Providence of
God, to be delivered from that Force and Bondage
they had been under fo many Years) to attend the
Discharge of their Truft for their Country, and con-
tribute their beft Afliftance and Advice for filling of
the Houfe, that, by full and free Councils, the fad
Breaches of thefe Nations might be made up, and
our Foundations fettled. In purfuance of this their
Refolu-
* From another Pamphlet of Prynre^s, with a very long Title, ar
ufual, though Jxe calls it only A brief Narrati-vc, &c. printed for /.'.
3"tnmast at the /Uem aad Evet Little -Jirittin, 1659.
fater-regmm
1659.
^-v-*—
December.
$o The Parliamentary HISTORY
Refolution, there went to the Houfe the Perfons
following, viz.
Sir Gilbert Gerard, Mr. William Prynne
Sir William Waller,
John Crew, Efq;
Arthur Anne/ley, Efq;
Serjeant Maynard,
Mr. Nathaniel Stephens,
Mr. Richard Knightly,
Sir Anthony Irby,
Sir "John Evelyn, of Surry,
Serjeant Waller,
Col. £«£^,
Mr. John Nelthorp9
Sir ^^» Temple,
Mr. Povey,
Mr. Henry Hungerford,
Sir .fo^rf jpy,
Mr. Qwfield,
Mr. Charles Pym,
Col. Lloydy and
Mr. P«* ;
Mr. Francis Bacon, com-
ing alone to demand
his Right, was excluded
before they came.
* Being come to the Lobby Door, through a Guard
of Soldiers that were upon the Stairs, we knocked
for Admittance ; but the Door-keeper having opened
the Door, and feeing us there, (hut it again, telling
Ms,That he had Orders to keep all the feduded Members
cut: We demanded, From whom? he laid, From
the Houfe ; yet two of us that were neareft the Door
overcame him with Reafon to let us into the Lobby ;
with which thofe that guarded the Houfe Door be-
ing, it feems, alarmed, (for, by the whole Carriage
of the Bufmefs, it was apparent they expected we
would, as heretofore, continue our Claim in the
People's Behalf) cried out aloud, Cooper^ (which
was the Name of the outward Door-keeper) Keep
cloje the Door, the Houfe hath ordered that none
cf them Jhould be Buffered to come in, and will be
very angry if you admit any of them ; whereupon he
kept out all the reft, dofmg the Door often upon
them ftrivtng for Entrance, when others palled in or
out. But thofe who had already got in exprefTed
a great Refentment of this continued Force upon-
the Houfe, demanding If there were any there who
could produce any Warrant for what was done?
And telling the Guards and Officers there, That it
was flrange Ufage to the Members of the Houfe, to deny
them this Privilege of Entrance into the Lobby \ wber:
the very Fectmen and others were freely admitttd j and
bow
Of E N G L A N D. 31
btw there were fame antient Members without, viz. Sir Inter-regftumt
Gilbert Gerard, Mr. Crew, Mr. Stephens, Sir Wil- l659-
liam Waller, and other 's, who could not bear the Croud ^^TT"^
upon the Stairs, and that we liked their Company fo
much better than what we found within, that, unlefs
all were admitted, we and the People took fufficient
Notice of the Farce and Affront, and would be gone.
Yet afked firft for the Officers that commanded the
Guard, who were pretended to have Orders for this
Force, viz. Col. Okey and Col. Alured ; who, being
really at Hand, were prefently brought to us. They
defiring us to be civil, and make no Difturbance at
the Door : We replied, We came thither in a civil
and peaceable Manner to claim our Rights, and dif-
charge our Trujls for our Country ; and they were
very uncivil towards us, and made the Difturbancey
by ft -eluding us forcibly, againjt their Trujls and Du-
ties, not only out of the Houfe, but Lobby too, free
for all others but Members, whofe Privileges were
reduced to fuch a low Ebb, as not to enjoy the Right
cf the meane/t Commoner. After thefe Expoftula-
ttons, they were fo far convinced of our rude Enter-
tainment, that Col. Alured caufed the Door to be
opened, and let the reft of us into the Lobby. Our
next Attempt was to get into the Houfe ; but then
the faid Colonels defired us to forbear. We afk'd,
By what Warrant they kept us out whom they knew
to be Members, they having fworn Obedience to the
Parliament? They replied, They had Orders for
what they did. We defired a Sight of them, and we
would retire and trouble them no further. Col.
Alured faid, That their Order was not about them ;
but fome others, and one Hage, by Name, faid,
They had verbal Orders to keep us out. At length
Col. Alured told us, If we would reft ourselves in the
inner Lobby, he would, by the Serjeant, acquaint the
Houfe of our Coming, and Demand of Admittance ;
and accordingly he went prefently to the Houfe
Door, and knocking, the Serjeant came to the Door
to him ; but at the opening of it, feeing fome of us
there offering to come in, held the Door almoft
fhut; whereupon Col. Alured told him, That the
Mem-
32 Tie Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. Members were come^ and endeavoured to get into ike
l6S9- Houfe, defiring him to acquaint the Speaker and
^— ~~ v- "^ Houfe fo much, (as fome of the Members did alfo)
itecem er. whicn ne promifed, and immediately did, returning
to the Door to tell us, Thai be had done fo, and that
the Houje had thereupon taken tip the Debate of that
Bufmefs ; and the Turnkey prcfently took the Key
out of the Door, to prevent any further Attempt of
going in. Col, Ingoldfby, whilft we were at the
firftDoor,came in, who was the only fitting Member
that we faw, for none came out whilft we were there :
Him we defired to acquaint the Houfe with our
Attendance, and the Force upon us, which he pro-
niifed to do, and we believe did.
* Having attended above an Hour, with more
Diftance and Strangenefs than ever we were ufed
to when we went on MefTages to the Lords Houfe,
who ufually came many of them out, and difcourfed
Very familiarly with usj whereas not one of thefe
felf-made Lordiings (whether out of Pride, Guilt,
or both, let others judge) vouchfafed to come near
us. We grew weary of waiting fo long and fervily
upon thofe, who, in their higheft Capacity, are but
our Equals, though we had borne it thus far, to ac-
quit ourfelves of neglecting no Condefcenfion that
might make Way to the Difcharge of the Truft we
are in for pur Country : And therefore we made
Col. A ] lured acquainted, That we were refolved to
(lay no longer, itnlefs the Houfe declared they defired
•we Jhould : Whereupon he went again to the Houfe
Door, which, upon his Knock, being opened, he
acquainted the Serjeant fo much, willing him to
give Notice thereof to the Speaker and Members
fitting; which he prefently did, and, within a ftiort
Time after, the Serjeant came out to us, and having
made a Preamble, That he had no Direction to come
and tell us any thing, he told us of his own Civility,
That the Houfe had paffed a Vote in cur Bufmefs ;
which, in Effeff* was, the appointing the $th of Ja-
nuary to take the Ifajinefs of the abfent Members into
Confideration ; which v/e looked upon as a difdain-
ful Affront, being prefent, not abfent Members,
and
Of E N G L A N D. 33
and an avowed Confirming and Owning of this for-
cible Exclufion of us, and fo departed. '—Thus far
Mr. Prynne.
And now the firft Thing we find this Houfe did, The Parlia-
was to appoint a Committee, confifting of Popbam, mmt's Proceed
Thompfon, Okey, Attired, and Markham, all Colo-1"65'
nels, with Sir Anthony AJhley Cooper ^ and Mr. Scctt^
to order, dire£, and conduct the Forces of the Ar-
my, and all other Forces ; and to command the
fame, for the Safety of the Parliament and this
Commonwealth ; to fupprefs all Tumults, Infur-
rections, and Rebellions, and all fuch Forces which
fhall oppofe, or refift, the Commands of the Parlia-
ment ; and to obferve fuch Orders and Directions
as they (hall receive, from Time to Time, from the
Parliament, or the Gommiflioners appointed by
Authority of Parliament. This Power to continue
till further Orders.
Orders were alfo given to provide one Month's
Pay, forthwith, for the Payment of the Non-Corn*
miffion Officers, and all other Officers, under the
Degree of Captains, with the private Soldiery, both
Horfe and Foot. The Committee for infpecling
the Treafury to advance this Money out of the
Treafuries of this Commonwealth. — The Govern-
ment of the Toiver was committed to Sir Anthony
Weaver , Scstt, and Jofias Earners.
December 27. The Houfe being informed that;
the Duties on Excife and Cuftoms would expire in
a few Days, they immediately ordered in a new
A61 for the fame ; which being read a firft and fe-
cond Time, and committed, was reported back the
fame Day, Commiffioners named, read a third
Time, pafTed, and was ordered to be forthwith.
printed and publifhed.
Ordered, l That no Forces (hall be raifed, but
by Authority of this prefent Parliament : And that
all fuch Forces as have been, or mail be, raifed,
without Authority of Parliament, be forthwith dif-
banded. Provided, That this Vote extend not to
any of the Forces raifed by General Menke.
VOL. XXII. C Ordered,
34 5T& Parliamentary HISTORY
interregnum. Ordered, ' That all the Regiments of Horfe and
1^ i*-^ ^j Foot, in the Northern Counties, do forthwith repair
December. unto ^ucn Quarters as {hall be appointed by the
Commiffioners for Management of the Army ; and
obferve fuch Orders and Directions as the Commif-
fioners, from Time to Time, (hall give forth/
Ordered, ' That it be referred to a Committee
to prepare Letters of Thanks, and Acknowledge-
ment of the Fidelity and good Service of General
Monke, Vice- Admiral LawJ'on, and the Commiffion-
ers at Port/mouth. Mr. Scott, Mr. Weaver, and
Col. Martin were to draw up the fame, and the
Speaker to fign and feal the faid Letters with the
Seal of the Parliament.'
Refolved, « That Mr. Speaker be defired to
write Letters to the feveral Members of this Hotife,
forthwith to give their Attendance on that S.ervice.'
This Vote was very neceiTary; when, on a Divilion
'"*Vf this Day about a Commiffioner of the Cuftoms,
the Numbers were only 20 to 17. Not a Houfe at
this Time.
December 28. Col. Ingoldjby gave an Account to
the Horffe, of his taking and fecuring ff^indfor Caftle
for the Parliament ; which A6tion the Houfe appro-
ved of, and gave Thanks to him and the Forces un-
der him.
December 29. The Speaker, by Order of the
Houfe, did return hearty Thanks to Sir Arthur
Hafilrigge^ Col. Walton^ and Col. Morley^ then
prefent in the Houfe ; and they were ordered to bring
in a Note of what \Monies they had dilburfed in the
fecuring of Portfrnoutb, to the end that a Courfe
might be taken for the fpeedy Repayment of them.
Next, the Houfe voted their Approbation of what
General Monke had done, in placing and difplacing
of Officers ; and that the faid Officers were there-
upon confirmed in their Offices and Places. Ano-
ther Letter of Thanks was alfo voted to be fent to
the General for his Fidelity and faithful Service.
The Houfe alfo approved of what was done by fo
many of the Council of State, as acled for the Parlia-
ment
Of E N G L A N D. 35
ment during the Time of the late Interruption of Inter-regnum,
their Sitting ; and gave them the hearty Thanks of l6S9-
the Houfe, for their good and faithful Service done "^
to the Parliament and Commonwealth.
Ordered, * That the Thanks of this Houfe be
given to Vice-Admiral Lawfon^ and all the Com-
manders and Officers of the Fleet, for their Fidelity
and great good Service done for the Parliament and
Commonwealth : And that Mr. Scott and Mr. Sol-
licitor Reynolds do repair to the Fleet, and prefent
thefe Votes and Letters of Thanks to the Vice-
Admiral, Commanders, and Officers there ; and to
Jet them know, That the Houfe will take Care for.
the Payment of their Arrears in due Time/
Other Perfons fhared likewife the Thanks of the
Houfe on this Occafion ; and, amongft thefe, their
old Speaker, Lentball^ was not forgotten ; for he,
amongft the reft, had the Thanks of the Houfe be-
ftowed upon him, for his very good Service done to
the Commonwealth.
In this Shower of Gratitude poured down upon
Individuals on all Sides, for affifting this Tail of
a Parliamem to its v/arm Seat again, fome one
Member, we fuppofe, moved, That God Almighty
might not be neglected. Thereupon it was order-
ed, * That a Day fhould be fet a part and obfer-
ved by the Members of this Houfe, in this Houfe,
for Fafting and Humiliation ; and for acknowledg-
ing of God's Mercy with Thankfulnefs : And for
Prayer, for his further Bleffings on the Councils of
the Parliament, and Afiiftance in carrying on the
great Work lying on their Hands.' — Ordered, alfb,
* That Mr. Burgefs of Portfrnoutb^ Mr. fanning^
and Mr. Jenkins, be defired to a,flift in carrying or*
the Work of that Day.
Dec. 30. According to an Order made the Day
before, the Houfe began on this to prepare for the
electing a new Council of State, confiding of twenty-
one of their own Members, and ten of fuch as were
riot of the Houfe. It was done in the ufual Way
by Ballot j but the Form and Manner of it took up
C 2 the
36 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. the reft of this Day, fo that the Nomination of them
1659. was not made till the next. a
December. The Names of the Perfons who had moft Voices,
A n°w Council ar'^ were Members of this Parliament, were re-
of State ele&ed. Ported > and the Quedion being put upon each of
their Names diftinotly, the following Perfons were
allowed to be duly elected :
Sir Arthur Hafilrigge, Col. Tbompfon,
Mr. Herbert Morlcy, Mr. John DixweU,
Mr. Wallop* Mr. 'Henry Nevill,
Mr. Thomas Scott, Col. Fagg,
Mr. Nicholas Love, Mr. John Corbet,
Mr. Oliver St. John, Mr. Thomas Cha^ner,
Col. White, Mr. Henrj Martin,
Mr. John Weaver, Mr. William Say,
Mr. Robert Reynolds? Col. Walton,
Sir James Harrington, Mr. Luke Rolinfon. °
Sir Thomas Widdrington,
The ten ferfons out of the Houfe were,
Sir jfnthonyd/bley Cooper, The Lord Fairfax,
General Monke, Alderman Foote,
Vice- Admiral Lawfon, Tyrrill,
Alderman Love, Robert Roll,
Jofias Earners, Sling/by Beth ell.
The Time for the Continuance of this Council
of State, to fit and aft, was voted to be only from
January the ift, 1659, to the ift Day of dpril,
1660. Inductions were drawn up and agreed for
them to act by, which are not entered in the Jour-
nals at Length j but, by the fhort Hints given there
of them, we fuppofe this Council had as much
Power over the Liberties, Lives, and Fortunes, of
their Fellow- Subjects, as ever belonged to the Re-
gality. And, that they might be all true and trufty
to the Good Old Caufe, they devifed the Form of an
Oath, which every one of the Council were to take
before
a See the Form in the Comment Journals, p. 800.
b This laft was a Shake-Cap, for Mr. Carcw Raleigh had the fame
Number of Voices on the Ballot j but both their Names being p •
int« a Hat and ftgkcd, the Speaker drew cut Mr,
Of E N G L A N D. 37
before they were admitted to their Seats; as were alfo Inter-regnum.
the Members of Parliament, as well tho-fe who then . J_ 5— ' _j
fat in. the Houfe, as thofe that were to fit hereafter. jammy.
The Oath, or Engagement, was in thefe Words :
/A. B. do hereby fwear, That I do renounce the An Abjuration
pretended Title, or Titles, of Charles Stuart, «»</°ath»
tke whole Line of the late King James ; and of every
other Pcrfon, as a Single Perfon, pretending, or
which Jhall pretend, to the Crown or Government of
thefe Nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland,
or any of them : And that I ivill, by the Grace and
jijjiftance of Almighty God, be true, faithful, and
ccn/iant to the Parliament and Commonwealth, and
luill cppofe the Bringing-in, or Setting-up of any Single
Perfon or Houfe of Lords •> and every of them, in this
Commonwealth.
The Parliament being thus reinftated in their for-
mer Sovereignty, and having taken Care, as they
thought, to build a Wall of Brafs quite round them,
on which were many Watch-Towers, to guard all
the Avenues, in order to prevent fuch perverfe Ac-
cidents as had before happened to them : Thus, we
fay, were they feemingly barricaded againft all fmi-
fler Events, when the unerring Hand of Providence
brought Deftru6tion upon them from afar, and gave
them fuch a Fall as never to rife again.
It was on the ift Day of January, i6^» th at Monke enters
General Monke began his March out of Scotland, an
crofled the Tweed with the Infantry of his Army,
his Horfe following him on the next. Dr. Gumble9
one of his Chaplains, and Author alfo of his Life,
tells us, That the General had but four Regiments
of Horfe and fix of Foot, making in all about 5000
Men, with him ; and that this was all the Force he
ever defigned for the Expedition. It was without
any Call, Orders, or Summons from his Matters
at r/cflminjier, that he began this March ; .and
Lambert being now ftolen away from Newca/lU, and
his Army left without a Commander, Monke had
nothing to fear from that Quarter to flop his Pro-
C 3 grefs.
38 'The Parliamentary HISTORY
jnter-regnum. grefs. The other Reverend Author we have before
l6S9« quoted, is very particular in his Account of this
' — v— -^ March, which we fhall follow as oft as there is Oc-
January. caflon . obferving here, that on this Day, Jan. 2,
it was the General received a kind Letter from the
Speaker, mentioned before out of the Journals,
fignifying, indeed, that they were returned to the
Exercife of their Authority, but not one Word about
his marching towards them : And this, adds the
Doctor, did but incrcafe his Jeafoufy of them. But
we mall leave the General now to purfue his March
Southward, and return to our ""Journals,
The fame Day the Houfe pafled a Vote, « That
all Officers who were in Commiffion on the nth
of Ottober, 1659, and all other Officers and Sol-
diers in the late Defection and Rebellion, who have
already fubmitted, and fuch as fhall hereafter fub-
jnit themfelves, and return to their Duty and Obe-
dience to the Parliament, before the gth Day of this
Inftant 'January fhall be, and are hereby pardoned
and indemnified for Life and Eftate ; and all fuch
Officers to be difpofed of by the Council of State,
Commiffioners of the Army, or General MonkeJ"
The Queftion being put, That John Lambert,
Efq; fhall be included within this Vote, the Houfe
divided, and it was carried for the Queftion, 28
againft 1 8. — Ordered, ' That this Vote be forth-
with printed and publifhexl, and that the Council
of State fee it put in Execution.'
Jan. 3. This Day it was refolved, on the Que-
ilion, ' That Writs fhould iflue out for electing;
Members to fit and ferve in Parliament, in the
Places of thofe Members of this Houfe that were
dead, under fuch Qualifications as (hould be agreed
upon by the Houfe ; and a Committee was named
to draw up and bring in fuch Qualifications for
Members for the Houfe to approve of.'
.Sir Arthur Hafilrigge reported a Bill to the Houfe,
For enacting the Oath of Renunciation of the Title
pf Charles Stuart, and the whole Line of the late
Jatnfs, to be taken by every Member that
no\y
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fcow fittcth, or that fhall fit, in Parliament.—— inter-regnum.
This Bill being put to the Queftion for the firft l6S9-
Reading, on a Divifion, it was carried by 24 to 15. ~
The Bill was read accordingly, and ordered a fecond
Reading on the 6th Inltant.
Jan. 4, was the Faft-Day, on which little Bufi-
nefs was done, befides returning Thanks to their
Preachers for their great Pains-taking, &c. After-
wards the Houfe read fome Letters from different
Parts ; one from York, dated Jan. 2, to Sir Arthur
Hafilrigge. Thefe might give fome Account of
jlfonlee's and Lord Fairfax's Motions ; but none of
their Contents are entered in the Journals, nor have
we met with them elfewhere.
Jan. 5. Nothing remarkable happened on this
Day, fave that, at the End of it, are fome Altera-
tions, the Note on which informs us, That here;
three Entries are erazed in the Original, and on the
Margin is written, Nulled by Order of Feb. 21,
1659. The Reafon for which we fhall know
further when we come to that Day.
Jan. 6. Another Letter from General Monke,
dated from Coldjlream, Dec. 29, was read in the
Houfe, but the Contents not entered in the Jour'
nah : However, we have met with a Copy of it in
the old Pamphlet before-mentioned, which we
give accordingly :
A LETTER fent from General
To the Right Hon. WILLIAM LENTHALL, Efq\
Speaker to the Right Honourable the Parliament
of England,
To be communicated to the reft of the Members of
Parliament at London.
Right Honourable, Coldjlream, Dec. 29, 1659;
c T Received yours of the 22d Inftant, and defire to Another Letter
' JL return to our good God hearty Thanks, that j™» thc
4 he hath been pleafed to own and appear for his
« People
40 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. ' People in fuch glorious Inftances of Mercy and
1659. ' Deliverance. I blefs the Lord, I never doubted
^-^•v^—^ ' of his Prei'ence and Su,ccefs in this Undertaking,
iar'V* ' being Ib righteous a Caufe, and had long fince
4 put it to God's Determination ; but upon Adver-
c tifements from Friends in England^ That if I could
4 continue here without engaging till the firft of
4 ^January, the Work would be done without Blood.
4 I cannot but admire upon what Intelligence you
* fliould be perfuaded of a fecond Treaty : Indeed
4 I was forced to make Ufe of fuch an Overture,
4 to remove the Commiilioners from London, whom
* I cannot but blame for receding from their In-
4 ftru£tions j but I hope they will give you a fatis-
* factory Account of their Proceedings ; yet I ac-
4 knowledge that I could not but refent their Car-
4 riage, having fecured one of them for betraying
4 the private Liftructions, of which I doubt not but
4 you have been fully informed.
* My laft Anfwer to the Lord Lambert, who Tent
4 feveral Mefiengers to invite me to a fecond Trea-
6 ty, was, That I could not treat without Autho-
4 rity from the Commiffioners for the Government
c of the Army ; and to that End defired a Pafs for
4 the fame Mefiengers to go to Portfmoutb to re-
4 ceive their Commands and Inftru&ions, who were
4 returned back with this Anfwer from Lambert and
4 the Council of Officers, That they could not con-
' fent thereunto j and fmce that I have not heard •
4 from them.
4 I have your Army, I blefs God., upon the River
4 Tweedy within three Hours ready to be drawn
4 together, and they are very chearful and unani-
4 mous, willing to, endure any Hardship for your
4 Service.
4 The laft Night Capt. Campbell came Exprefs
* from Ireland, giving a full Account of their Af-
4 fection to the Parliament, and of the late Tranfac-
4 tions there : That they had feized Dublin Caftle,
c and fecured Jones and others, with a Declaration
6 to ftand by and own your Authority j for which,
4 on
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* on this Inftant, we kept a Day of Thankfgiving. Inter-regnum,
* They writ alfo to the Irijb Brigade in England, l659-
* which I difpatched to them. Sir Hardrefs Waller *~7~^
* gives me an Account, that all the Forces and January«
* Garrifons in Ireland had declared for you.
4 This is fuch a Mercy, that I hope the Lord
4 will make us fenfible of, and careful to improve.
4 They required my Opinion as to managing of the
' Affairs of the Army, which in fuch an urgent
* Neceffity I prefumed to give. I have difpofed of
4 moft of the vacant Commands in Scotland to very
* honeft Men, who are ready to die for your Ser-
* vice, or to difband at your Command. And be-
* fore your Letter came to FJand, I had difpofed of
* Col. Saunders's and Major Barton's Commands,
4 the Lord Lambert's Forces prefling upon me. I
* could not leave my vacant Places unfupplied ; but
* I know that (this Work profpering) you will have
4 Opportunity enough to gratify them. Capt. Izods's
4 Place i§ referved for him according to your Plea-
4 fure.
4 I humbly thank the Members of the Council
* for that great Honour they were pleafed to confer
* upon me, and hope you never fliall find but fuch
4 an abfolute Obedience from me to your Com-
4 mands, that I {hall be more ready to return that
* Commiffion than to receive it. I believe that you
4 never doubted of my perfevering in thofe good
4 Principles I declared for ; and that I fhould com-
4 fortably (if the Lord had pleafed to frown upon
* us) have fuffered in this moft righteous Under-
4 taking. I have made ready to march, but am
* unwilling to hazard your Juftice and Authority
* upon a Fight, when it may be done with more
* Security. I fliall attend your further Commands,
* and deflre the Lord to blefs your Forces and
4 Counfels, and to reftore you in your juft Autho-
' rity ; which is both the Prayer and Endeavour
' °f Sir, your mojl humble
^nd faithful Servant ',
GEORGE MONKE.
The
42 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. The "Journals of Parliament inform us, That
l659* this Letter was highly pleafmg to them ; for an
'~v~~ ~~* Anfwer to it was immediately ordered to be fent to
January* the General, expreffing the Thanks of the Parlia-
ment to him, and acknowledging his faithful Ser-
vice and high Defervings ; and that he, taking Care
for the Safety and Prefervation of Scotland in his
Abfence, fhould be defired to come up to London
with all convenient Speed.
A Letter alfo from the Lord Fairfax, Sir Henry
Cholmley^ and Henry ArtUngion^ Efqj dated Po-
fleton^ near York, January I, 1659, was read a ; and
Sir Thomas Widdrington was ordered to write a Let-
ter of Thanks to the Lord Fairfax^ and the other
Gentlemen, for his and their good Service done to
the Parliament. Thefe two Letters were alfo ordered
to be printed and publiflied ; but one from Lambert^
dated from Northallerton^ December 31, and read at
the fame Time, had no further Notice taken of it.
A Bill for borrowing 20,000 /. upon the Excife
was read a third Time and pafled : The Bill alfo
for taking and fubfcribing the Oath for renouncing
the Title of Charles Stuart, and of every other
Single Perfon, to the Crown, or Government, of
thefe Nations, was read a fecond Time, and deba-
ted ; but the further Confideration thereof referred
to next Day.
Jan. 7. Is remarkable for nothing being; done upon
it in the Houfe, but a Report made by a Committee
of Privileges and Elections, * That Sir Anthony AJhley
Cooper was duly elected Burgefs for the Town of
Downton, in Wiltjbire^ which the Houfe agreed to :
And Sir Anthony^ being called in, took his Place,
and afterwards, at the Clerk's Table, he read openly
the Engagement, and fubfcribed the fame at the
Table. He was afterwards made a Colonel of
Horfe. We mention thefe Things chiefly to {hew
what a Part this Man acted fome few Months after,
a This Letter is in our Coikftion j but we think it not particu-
lar .enough to be infcrted,
In
Of ENGLAND.
43
In the Afternoon of the fame Day is this Entry : inter-regnum.
< Whereas this Houfe do find an Entry in the
Journal-Book , the 2oth of April^ 1653, in thefe
Words, viz. This Day his Excellency the Lord-
General dij/'olved this Parliament ;' which was done
without Confent of Parliament. Refolved, ' That
the Parliament do.th declare, That the fame is
Forgery/ Mr. Scobell was ordered to be fent for
to the Bar of the Houfe, who being (hewed the faid
Entry, and alked who made it, confefled it was his
Hand-writing, and that he did it without Direction
of any Perfon whatsoever. Hereupon the Houfe
iirft ordered the Entry aforefaid to be expunged out
of the Journal, and then appointed a Committee
to confidcr, Whether the late Adi: of Indemnity did
extend to pardon this Offence ; which 'tis probable
it did, for we hear no more of the Matter.
January 9. The Debate on the Bill for the new
Oath was deferred to the next Day.
After reading another Letter from Gen. Monke^
dated JVooller^ January 3, and referring it to the
Council of State, the Door of the Houfe was or-
dered to be fliut, and Sir Henry Vane to be fent for
to attend the Parliament forthwith.
In the mean Time the Book of Orders, and the
Book of Letters, belonging to the Admiralty, were
ordered to be brought to the Houfe by the proper
Officers. — A Committee was appointed to prepare
and bring in a Bill for the Sale of the Eftates of
Delinquents and Traitors, in the late Rebellion of
Sir George Booth. To fend for the Commiffioners
for Sequeftrations, and examine what Money had
been received by the Sequeftrations of Delinquents
and Traitors Eftates ; how the fame had been dif-
pofed of, and by what Authority. The Council of
State was alfo directed to examine what Perlbns, in
the faid Rebellion, had been releafed fmce the late
Interruption of the Parliament, and to remand them
to fuch public Prifons as they (hould think fit. •
Vice Admiral Laivfon appearing at the Bar of the
Houfe, had the hearty Thanks of the Houfe return'd
him
1659.
— -v— •
January,
44 3$* Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regmim. him, for his conftant Fidelity, and the great and!
l659- eminent Services done by him, /ince the Jate Inter -
%*~~v~~> ruption of Parliament.
January. ^ fjenry yane having been fent for, according
to the Refolution aforefaid, came to the Houfe ;
and, being fet in his Place, feveral Members of the
Houfe objected feveral Matters againdl him, a&ed
flnce the late Interruption of the Parliament.
And feveral Letters fent from the Commiffioners
cf the Admiralty, the one of the I5th of October^
1659, written to Vice- Admiral Lawfon, in the
Dcwnes ; and feveral Orders of the Commiffioners
of the Admiralty, one of the 2Qth ofOtfober, 1659,
and another of the 31$ of Ottober, 1659, and ano-
ther of the fecond of November, 1659, were read.
Sir Henry Vane, landing up in his Place, made An-
fwer to the faid feveral Charges ; and having fat down
again, the Houfe, on the Debate, refolved, ' That
Sir Henry Vane be difcharged from being a Member
of this Parliament, and he was injoined to repair to
his Houfe at Raby, in the County of Durham, and
remain there during the Pleafure of the Parliament.
It was alfo refolved, * That the Colonels John
Lambert, Dejborough, AJbfield, Bury, Kelfey, Gobbet^
Barrow, Packer^ and Major Creed> be forthwith
injoined to repair to their refpe&ive Houfes in the
Country, fartheft diftant from the City of London^
and to continue there during the Pleafure of the Par-
liament. The Council of State was ordered to fee
this Vote put in Execution, to whom it was refer-
red, touching the fending fuch other Officers of the
Army, as have been againft the Parliament fmce
the late Interruption, out of the City of London^ to
their refpe&ive Houfes in the Country.'
January 10. The Houfe feems to have been
bufv mofl; of this Day in debating the Bill relating
to the Engagement ; which, at laft, was committed.
A Committee alfo had been appointed to ftate the
Qualifications of Members to fit and ferve in Par-
liament; who, this Day, brought in a Bill for dif-
abling Perfons to elecl, or be elected, to this prefent
Parlia-
Of E N G L A N D. 45
Parliament ; which was read a firft Time, and or- inter-reguui
dered a fecond Reading the next Morning the firft *659-
Bufmefs. — Mr. Thomas Scott, the noted Regicide, L ~V"-
was nominated and appointed, as a Secretary of State January*
ufed to be, to take Care of all Papers, and receive
Informations of public and private Intelligence, and
prefent them to the Council of State.
"January n. The Bill of Elections was again
debated, and afterwards committed. — Col. Morley
was made Governor of the Tower of London, which
was all the material Bufinefs done on this Day.
"January 12. The Houfe received and read ano-
ther Letter from Gen. Monke, which was fent by
Mr. Gumble, one of his Chaplains, and dated from
Newcaftle, January 6, 1659. The Houfe being'
informed that the MefTenger was at the Door,
Mr. Gumble was called in, and at the Bar he made
a Relation of what the General gave him in Charge ;
and alfo delivered in two Letters, and withdrew.
One of thefe Letters was from the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Commons, in Common Council
aflembled, dije£r.ed to General Monke, dated De-
cember 29, 1659 ; and the other from the General at
Newcajlle, January 6, following, which was in An-
fwer to the former. Both which Letters being read,
and Mr. Gumble being called in again, and heard
what he had further to fay, the Houfe came to the
following Orders and Refolutioris : Ordered, * That
the Sum of IOO/. be given to Mr. Gumble ; and it
was referred to the Council of State to fee the fame
forthwith paid him or his Affigns. The Houfe, at
the fame Time, refolved to take him into further
Confideration, for his Preferment, as Conveniency
fhould offer ; and the Particulars related by Mr-
Gumble, touching what Perfons are fit to be Judges
in Scotland, were referred to the Council of State,
who
g This Thomas Cumble, D. D. wrote the Life of General Monkf,
Duke of Albtrmarle, £ff. with fome Remarks upon his Aftions.
Lvndon, 1671, Svo. From which the Authors »f this Work ate
indebted for fcvewl Obferv*tions,
City of Loude
46 The Parliamentary HISTORY
. who were ordered to report their Opinion therein
to the Parliament. ' *
It was then refolved, « That the Parliament doth
juftify and approve of what Gen. Monke hath done,
in taking up Horfes, and in his marching into Eng-
land, and all other Things by him acled and done,
in order to the Service of the Parliament and Com-
monwealth: And. the Sollicitor-General was order'd
to bring in an A61 for juftifying and approving what
Gen. Monke had done.'
We are not told any more by the yournah, of the
Purport of the General's Letter to the City, nor of
their Anfwer to it ; neither does cur particular Hi-
ilorian explain them much further : For he only
tells us, ' That Mr. William Mann, Sword-Bearer
of London, met the General at Adorpetb, with Ad-
drefles from the City, who had been early Rebels
to the Parliament ; that the General ga\£ him
Letters back, and, for Reafon of Camp, fen t Mr,
Gumble along with him to the Parliament with
Copies of both.' — But the before-quoted old Collec-
tion of Letters furnifhes us, alfo, with thefe two
extraordinary Anecdotes, which we {hall give in
their own Words :
A LETTER from General MONKE, directed and
delivered to the LORD MAYOR, Court of AL-
DERMEN, and COMMON COUNCIL of the City
of LONDON.
Right Honourable,
T TP°N ^ firft N°tice * had °f the kteForce
\J Put upon the Parliament, I directed a Let-
ter to you, to acquaint you, that my Refolutions
were according to my Duty to ftand by them, and
to endeavour their Re-eftablifhment, though with
the Hazard of whatfoever was dear to me •, and
that the Army under my Command was very cor-
dial and unanimous in that Undertaking ; but that
Letter coming to a Mifchance, I have, at the
Defire, and with the Concurrence of the Officers
* here,
Of E N G L A N D. 47
* here, again written to you, to let you know that Inter-rcgnum.
' we are ftill conftant to our firft Refolutions, in l659-
* which we are the more confirmed, fmce we have *---v— J
' been informed that the Authors of that Force Januar?»
* have proceeded fo far as to null and make void
' A&s of Parliament, (which the King, when he
4 was at the higheft, never pretended to do, antf
* which no true Engltjhman can endure to fee done
* by any but Parliaments themfelves) and are now
* contriving, by their own Power and Authority, to
* fet up a new Government over the Three Nations :
* If this be fuffered, I know not to what Purpofe all
* this Blood hath been fpilt, all this Treafure fpent,
* and all thofe Engagements made. We muft take
* upon ouifelves the Guilt of all, and look upon this
' Slavery we have brought upon ourfelves, as a Judg-
* ment upon us for our Murder, Rapines, and Per-
* juries : 1 take God to Witnefs I have no other End,
c than to reftore the Parliament to its former Free-
* dom and Authority, and the People to their juft
* Rights and Liberties, in which I am fure I cannot
* want your Afliftance. It is not the Defire of any
' here, that thofe, who truly fear God, fhould be
' hindred of their Liberty to worfhip him according
4 to their feveralPerfuafions, or that the congregated
6 Churches fliould be abridged of any of the Privi-
' leges and Freedoms they have been ufed to enjoy,
* or even to claim ; there are many Members of
* thofe Churches with us, which can give this Tefti-
* mony, yet we could be content that fome Men
* would not, under Pretence of maintaining that
' Liberty, endeavour the Overthrow of the National
* Miniftry, and, by Confequence, leave the greateft
* Part of the People to utter Ignorance and Atheifm :
' However this is not the Thing for which we at
' prefent contend, we (hall leave this and all other
' Things to the Parliament, the confefTed Supreme
* Judicature of the Nation ; but for the Defence of
* that we are all refolved to venture to the utmoft.
* If this good Caufe {hall mifcarry in my Hands,
* through Want of your timely Affiftance, it will
* be too Jate for you to endeavour to fupport it with
vour
48 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum, « your own Strength ; and if it profper, it will be
tuT-^5— _f * dishonourable f°r a City fo famous, and fo much
January. ' concerned, that its Liberties fhould be aflerted
' without its own Help : I know you are fo fenfible
* of the Intereft of God's People, the Rights of the
* whole Nation, and of your own Charter, (which
.* cannot be fafe in the Hands of thefe Over-turners,
' and which hath been already indirectly threatned
* by them) that you will not be wanting to that
* Opportunity which God hath put into your Hands;
* but now, while their Army is waiting upon me
* in the North, ufe your utmoic Endeavours in the
* South ; and therefore I (hall need to ufe no other
* Perfuafion to Englijhmen^ and Men that have en-
' gag^d all along in the fame Caufe ; but lhall pray
« to God to unite your Hearts, and ftrengthen your
' Hands in this good Work, and remain
Tour Lardfoip's
Edinburgh, Nc-u. 12,
1659, rery bumble servant,
GEORGE MONKE.
The LETTER of the LORD MAYOR, ALDERMEN,
and COMMON COUNCIL of the City of LONDON,
to bis Excellency the Lord General MONKE.
Right Honourable,
The City of c -sr *ir f £ Jare not enter upon tne Anfwer to the
London s Anfwer , \/l/ T\/r-r t- »T TL
to the foregoing. V V Merits of your Excellency s Letter of the
' 1 2th of November, which came to our Hands the
' 23d of the fame, (which was the firft and only one
* that came to us) without prefacing our hearty
* and thankful Admiring and Acknowledging the
' tranfcendent Mercy of God, in putting into your
* Heart thofe pious and noble Refolutions, to appear
' at fuch an Exigent to be the glorious Inftrurnent
6 in his Hand, both to aflert and vindicate the
« greateft Intereft, both Civil and Religious, of thefe
* Nations. And, next, That your fmgular Humility
* of Spirit, and Affeclion to this City, in commu-
* nicating to us, fo early, thofe your juft Refolveef
6 and inviting us to fhare in the Honour of affiftin^v
« to
Of E N G L A N D* 49
c to the obtaining of thofe great and glorious Ends, Inter- regnum,
' in which the Happinefs of thefe Nations in gene- t_— 6'— ' /
* ral, and of the City, as a Corporation, confifts.
* In all which our Spirits were both enlightened
* and warmed by a Spark from your Zeal, and ac-
* tuated by God to a prefent Activity, in our Sphere
* and Capacity, in Compliance with your Excellen-
* cy's Advice, as we truft the whole World, that
' hath feen our Actings fince the Receipt of your
* Letter, can bear us Witnefs ; and That we hope
* may be our fufficient Plea for Pardon, for our not
* returning a more timely Anfwer to your Excellen-
* cy's faid Letter : But we defire your Excellency
* to believe, that was principally retarded by Sufpi-
* cion caft on the Authenticknefs of it, by thofe who
* had the Confidence on that Score to imprifon the
' Deliverers, and by the Interpofition of the Forces
4 here, and led out againft your Excellency, who
* lay in the PafTage to you.
' But now, may it pleafe your Excellency, fee-
' ing it hath pleafed God, in fome Meafure, to re-
' move thofe Obftructions, we prefume by this to
' affert in Writing, what, we hope, all our Actings,
* fince the Receipt of your Excellency's Advice,
' have evidenced :
* That we have cordially concurred with your
* Excellency, in difowning the Author of that Force
' who interrupted the Parliament, and ravifhed the
c Birth-right of thefe Nations, by daring to null and
'make void Acts of Parliament ; and, we think,
* have contributed fomewhat, by God's Blefling on
' our Counfels and Actings, to the preventing of the
' fad Confequences of that exorbitant Preemption.
' How fully and entirely we comply with your Ex-
* cellency, in aflerting the Authority and Freedom
* of Parliaments, and the juft Rights and Liberties
' of the People, a National Miniftry, for the en-
' lightning of the Ignorant, and fupprefling of
' Atheifm, we humbly refer your Excellency to our
' inclofed Declaration % and do ferioufly aflure your
VOL. XXII. D Ex~
a The Declaration here referred to is not in the CoUcilion of
Monkis Letters, nor have we met with it any where elfe.
50 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter;£gnnum' ' Excellency, That we {hall, by God's Affiftance,
* perfift faithfully and vigoroufly in this good Caufe.
' And prating God to preferve your Excellency,
* and thofe noble Commanders with you, in thefe
' your juft, honourable, and Chriftian Underta-
' kings, (hall remain Tour ExceUency>s
Moji affetlionate
And faithful Friends and Servants ,
216* May or i Aldermen, and Com-
Gwldkall, London, r i />• /- i
Dec. 29, 1659. mons °f the Ct*y °f London, IK
Common Council affembled.
In their Names, and by their Order,
SADLER.
This Letter is conveyed by the Sword- Bearer of
London, by the feveral Directions of the Lord
Mayor , Aldermen, and Court of Common Council.
The LETTER of his Excellency the Lord-General
MONKE, in Anfwer to the former Letter. a
My Lord, Newcajlle, Jan. 6, 1659.
The General's £ T Received a Letter from your Lordmip, and the
Anfwer to the c J^ reft f th Common Council, of the iioth of
Jaft from the , „ , , , , . , , , r , •
City. December, and do numbly thank you tor that great
* Efteem which you are pleafed to put upon the
' poor Endeavours of the Parliament's Army under
4 my Command, far tranfcending our Merits and
c Services. As to thofe Ends which we then de-
' clared for, 1 blefs the Lord I acted according to
' Conference, and I hope we were found in the Way
' of Duty, and are refolved, by the Grace of God,
* to adhere to them, having found fuch wonderful
' Bleffings following us, in thefe our juft and honeft
* Undertakings.
' As your prudent Counfels and courageous Acl>
* ings were the great Aleans, under God, of re-
' ftoring this Parliament to its juft and lawful
* Authority, fo of the Safety and Welfare of the
<Na-
a This Letter was fent by Mr. Gumble exprefsly, to the City, at
the fame Time with the foregoing to the Parliament, and fclknvs in
tiie CcJleOion,
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* Nations, for which I do, for myfelf and the reft of Inter-regnum.
* the Officers here, return my very hearty Thanks ;
' and we fhall ever have Caufe to blefs the Lord
4 for this great Mercy, in putting into your Hearts
* fuch righteous and honourable Refolutions, to
4 appear at fuch a Time, when our Liberties and
* Properties, and all that is dear unto us, even the
* Ordinances of our blefled Saviour, were in fuch
4 Hazard.
4 Indeed it was much in our Hopes, that fuch a
1 glorious City, that had redeemed themfelves from
4 Slavery, at the Price of fo much Blood arid Trea-
4 fure, and had been the great Inftruments, in the
4 Hand of God, for the carrying on the Work of
* Reformation, and bringing Three Nations out of
4 the Captivity of Tyranny and arbitrary Govern-
4 ment, could ever confent to fuch illegal and unjufl
4 Proceedings. As we do acknowledge your great
4 Activity in promoting thofe great Ends which we
* lately represented to you, fo we do heartily thank
* you for the Honour and Encouragement which
4 you have been pleafed, in this your Letter, to give
4 to the Parliament's Army here ; for ourfelves, we
* have nothing to feek (we blefs the Lord) in all
< this Affair, but to endeavour the Safety and Settle-
4 ment of thefe Nations in general, and of the fa-
* mous City in particular.
* We received your inclofea Declaration, and do
' chearfully join with you therein. And I do pro-
* mife you for the Army under my Command, that
* they are refolved, by the Afliftance of God, to
4 {land by and maintain this prefent Parliament, as
4 it fat on Ottoler 1 1 , from whom we received our
* Commiflions ; and do hope, that you that have
4 been fo eminently inftrumental in their Reftoring,
* will heartily concur with us therein; and fhall, to
* the utmoft of our Power, defend the Freedom of
4 fucceflive Parliaments, and the Liberties, Spiritual
4 and Civil, of the People in thefe Nations ; and
* {hall encourage, in our Stations, the godly and
* learned Minifters, and fhall continue faithful in
* this good Caufe, that the Nations may be ftablifti'd
D 2 4in
52 The Parliamentary HISTORY
in a Free Commonwealth, and the Army kept in
due Obedience to the Civil Authority.
' And as we have experienced the great Affe&ion
of your City, in fuch a Day of Darknefs and
great Trial, fo we (hall everftudy, to the utmoft,
to exprefs our Services for you, and {hall not think
our Lives too precious to hazard for your Welfare.
I think to wait upon you fhortly, and {hall referve
thofe further Acknowledgements to that Oppor-
tunity, and remain
Your Lordjhip's very humble Servant,
GEORGE MONKE.'
The Bufmefs of the Houfe feems now to be folely
employed in nominating Officers to feveral Regi-
ments ; nothing elfe intervening of any Confe-
quence, fave that the Speaker, being taken ill in the
Houfe, defired Leave to abfent himfelf for ten Days
from it ; which was granted, and Mr. Say ele&ed to
fupply his Room.
January 14. The Council of State was authori-
zed and injoined to fecure the Colonels Lambert,
Dejborougb, Bury, Kelfey, Cobbet, AJbfield, Barrow,
Packer, and Major Creed, and all other Perfons
whatfoever, who had been banifhed to their Country -
Houfes, by Orders, or Warrants, from Parliament,
and have not obeyed fuch Orders.
uma Janufiry ID- The Parliament being willing to
Year voted" for caj°k General Monke, and fhew fome iignal Mark
Central Menke, of their Favour to him, ordered, 'That iooo/.
a Year, Land of Inheritance, be fettled upon Com-
miffioner George Monke, and his Heirs, as a Mark
of the Favour and Refpecl of the Parliament, for his
eminent and fignal Services for the Parliament and
Commonwealth ; and that it be referred to a Com-
mittee to confider what Lands were moft conve-
nient to be fixed on for that Purpofe ; who were
ordered to report their Opinion to the Parliament,
and to bring in a Bill for fettling the faid Lands on
Commiflioner George Monke> and his Heirs/
It
Of E N G L A N D. 53
It was alfo ordered, ' That Mr. See ft and Mr. Inter-regnum,
Robinfon be defired to go to Commiilioner George l659-
Monke, to congratulate with him from the Parlia- *---v— ••'
ment, for the good Succefs the Lord had given to -'ani
his Endeavours, and to let him know the Senfe they
have of his great Services ; and that Care is taken
by the Parliament to provide Money for his Officers
and Soldiers ; and it was referred to the Council of
State to provide Money to defray Mr. Scott and
Mr. Robinfon 's Expences.'
A Letter was likewife ordered to be fent to Com-
miffioner George Monke, to let him know the Senfe
the Parliament had of his great Services, and that
they are providing Money for his Soldiers : And
that the Parliament were glad to hear of his repair-
ing to London, according to their Defire.
It was referred to Lord Chief Juftice St. Johny
Mr. Sollicitor Reynolds, and Mr. Lechmere, to draw
the faid Letter, and prefent it to the Parliament for
their Approbation.
The fame Day, according to former Order, an
engrofied Bill, which had laid dormant ever fmce
their being turned out of Doors, and which was
for raifmg 1 00,000 /. a Month upon England^
Scotland, and Ireland, for twelve Months, from Sep-
tember 29, 1659, to the fame Day, 1660 ; that is
to fay, on England, 70,ooo/. on Scotland, 1 2,000 /.
and on Ireland i8,ooo/. a Month, was read a third
Time. After which the Door of the Houfe being
ordered to be fhut, the Houfe debated this Bill ; and
a Queftion being put, That twelve Months do ftand
in the Bill, it paffed in the Negative j fo it was de-
termined to fubfift no longer than to the 24th Day
vfjune, 1660.
January 17. The Parliament, according to for-
mer Order, did take into Debate the Bufmefs touch-
ing Members of Parliament, againft whom Matters
are obje&ed : And fome Matters having been ob-
jected againft Col. Sydenham, he, (landing up in his
Place, made Anfwer thereunto. Some Things be-
ing alfo objected againft Major Salway, he, fland-
D 3 ing
54 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Interregnum, ing up in his Place, did acknowledge his Mifcar-
l659- riages fince the late Interruption of the Parliament :
*-""v^-J And faid, He doubted fome fuch Words might fall
January. from hjm as ne was charged with, and therefore he
would not, in any Meafure, excufe nor jufti/y him-
felf, nor any ways extenuate his Fault; but did hum-
bly fubmit himfelf to the Parliament, as one fenfible
of his Mifcarriages ; and humbly craved the Pity
and Pardon of the Parliament.
Then it was refolved, * That Mr. Scobel be fent
for prefently to attend the Parliament ; and that he
bring with him the Papers that related to a Scheme
of Government framed and brought to the pre-
tended Committee of Safety.'
It was alfo refolved, ' That Col. Sydenham be
difcharged from being a Member of this Parliament;
and the Queftion being propofed, That Major Sal-
way be difcharged from fitting as a Member of this
Parliament, and the previous Queftion being put,
it pa{Ted in the Negative, 30 againft 22.'
It was then refolved, ' That Major Salway be
fufpended from fitting in the Parliament during the
Pleafure of the Parliament ; and it being then pro-
pofed, That he be fent to the Tower, there to remain
during the Pleafure of the Parliament, the previous
Queftion being put, it was carried in the Affirma-
tive, by 29 againft 14.' Then it was refolved,
c That Major Salway be committed to the Tower9
there to remain during the Pleafure of the Parlia-
ment:' And it was ordered, * That the Cafes of
the reft of the Members, againft whom Matters
were objected, be taken into Confideration that Day
Se'nnight; and that the Books of the pretended
Committee of Safety, remaining in Mr. Robin/on's,
Hands, be forthwith brought to the Clerk of the
Parliament,'
January 18. Mr. Lenthatt reported from the Com-
mittee to whom it was referred to confider of the
Names of fit Perfons to be Commiffioners of the
Great Seal, Judges of the feveral Courts of Juftice
in, Wefitoinfier-Hall, Attorney-General, and of
Judges
Of E N G LAN D. 55
Judges for the Courts of Admiralty and Probate of Inter-regnum.
Wills ; when the following were feverally refolved j6^' ^
upon, viz. Sir Thomas IViddrington, and Serjeants jafluary..
Tlrril and Fountaine, to be Commiffioners for the
Cuftody of the Great Seal ; Mr. Serjeant tfcwdi-
gate, to be Chief Juftice, and Serjeants Hill and
Nicholas, to be Juftices of the Upper Bench ; Mr.*
Serjeant St. John, to be Chief Juftice, and Serjeants
Windham and Archer, to be Juftices of the Court of
Common Pleas j Air. Serjeant Wild, to be Chief
Baron, and Serjeants Thorpe and Parker, to be Ba-
rons of the Court of Exchequer ; Mr. Sollicitor
Reynolds, to be Attorney-General ; Mr. Ellis, to be
Sollicitor-General ; Dr. Walker ', Dr. Turner, and *
William Cawley, Efq; to be Judges of the Court of
Admiralty, and of the Court of Probate of Wills,
and granting of Adminiftrations.'
It was alib refolved, 4 That Serjeants Erie and
Maynard be Serjeants to the Commonwealth, and
Mr. Lechmere one of the Learned Council for the
the fame.
Patents were ordered to be prepared for the above
Gentlemen, and the Speaker was authorized to fign
a Docket for paffing the faid Patents under the
Great Seal ; which was ordered to be brought to
the Houfe the next Morning, and the Commiffion-
ers appointed for keeping thereof ordered to attend
the Houfe at the fame Time, to receive it from the
Speaker.
January 19. The Houfe being informed that fe- Affairs from Ire-
veral Officers of the Army in Ireland were at the^'"' confidered
Door, they were ordered to' be called in; and, be- ^ the Houfe'
ing at the Bar, Col. Bridges faid, « Thefe Gentle-
men .and myfelf have received Command, from the'
Council of Officers in Ireland, to give you an Ac-
count how the State of Affairs, relating to the Ar-
my there, do ftand ; which, by an extraordinary
Providence of God, is brought over to your Ser-
vice ; and they are ready to obey your Commands
w all Things.' . Then he delivered a Letter from
Sir Hardrefs Waller > and many other Officers of
the
56 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. the Irijh Army, dated Dublin, Jan. 7, 1659, which
was reac^ » as a^° another Letter inclofed, fubfcrib'd
by Hardrefs Waller, Lord Broghill, and Charles
Coote, with Articles of Impeachment, by Sir Charles
Coote, Knight and Baronet, Prefident of the Pro-
vince of Connaught, againft Col. John Jones, Miles
Corbet, Matthew Tomlinfon, and Lieutenant-Ge-
neral Edmund Ludlow, and figned Charles Coote.
Upon reading of thefe and fome other Papers, the
Houle proceeded, firft, to revoke and fufpend all
Powers given by them to the aforefaid Gentlemen,
and then to command them forthwith to attend the
Parliament, and anfwer to the Impeachment of
•High Treafon, wherewith they were charged. That
Ludlow, and others concerned with him, fhould
forthwith deliver up the Fort of Duncannon, the
City of Cork, &fV. to Sir Hardrefs Waller and
Sir Charles Coote., or either of them. After which
a Letter was ordered to be fent to Sir Charles Coote
to inform him of this, and to defire he would take
Care to fee it executed. Laftly, the Irijh Officers
were ordered to be called in again, when Mr. Speaker
gave them this Anfwer :
Gentlemen,
6 /TpHE Parliament have taken Notice of your
J[ very good Affections, and of your Care of
preserving the Peace of Ireland, and of your great
Pains of coming from thence, and have commanded
me to give you Thanks ; and, in their Name, I do
give you Thanks accordingly. For the Bufmefs you
came" about; the Parliament have taken it into Con-
iideration, and have put it into a proper Way.1
Dr. Price, the Author of the Hiftory of the Re-
ftoration, acquaints us with the Secret which occa-
iioned thefe Commotions in Ireland; particularly
againft Ludlow, who was well known to be a fteady
Adherent to the Intereft of the prefent Government.
It feems that Monke was jealous left this Man (hould
obftrucT: his Defigns, by keeping the Army in Ire-
land firm to the Parliament, and therefore he laid a
Scheme
Of E N G L A N D. 57
Scheme to circumvent him. The Doctor tells us, interregnum.
' That the General, when he had got no farther on l659-
his March than Morpeth, difpatched away Sir Jofepb *-~ — ^
Douglas, with Letters of great Moment, to Sir Januai>
Charles Coote in Ireland. Thefe Letters, he adds,
were of great and dangerous Quality ; for Douglas
was to negotiate with Coote^ that the various Inte-
refts there might be fo managed, as to engage them
to confederate quickly into a Declaration for a free
Parliament, as the moft proper and effectual Way
to redrefs their Grievances. Douglas fucceeded in»
his Embafly, and he had brought the Officers there
to too mature a Pitch ; for, juft as they were about
declaring for a free Parliament, they were alarmed
with the aftoniming News, that Monke had broken
down the Gates of London : Whereupon the Con-
ipirators in Ireland expoftulated with Douglas as if
he had betrayed them : But the next Packet from
England afiured them, that Monke had alfo declared
for a free Parliament, which &t all right.'
But not to anticipate Matters, and to proceed :
Sir Thomas Widdrington, Serjeant Tyrrill^ and Ser-
jeant Fountaine were made Commiffioners of the
Great Seal, and had it delivered to them by the
Hands of the Speaker, with the ufual Ceremony, in.
the Houfe ; which was now very bufy again in grant-
ing Commiflions, and regulating the Officers of the
Army, till this Day, Jan. 21, when it was ordered,
' That it be referred to a Gommittee to bring in a
Declaration, on Monday Morning next, That the
Parliament intends forthwith to proceed to the Set-
tlement of the Government; and will uphold a
learned and pious Miniftry in the Nation, and their
Maintenance by Tythes and the known Laws of
the Land : That they will proceed to fill up the
Houfe as foon as may be ; and to fettle the Com-
monwealth without a King, Single Perfon, or Houfe
of Peers, and will promote the Trade of the Na-
tion : That they will referve due Liberty to tender
Cojifciences $ and encourage and fettle the Uni-
verfities;
58 'The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. verfities : That they will not meddle with the
1 ' Executive Power of the Law, but only in Cafes of
*~^^ Male-Adminiftration and Appeals ; and that Pro-
ceedings (hall be according to the Laws : And alfo,
That they will eafe the Burdens of the Nation as
much as is confident with the preffing Neceffities
of the Commonwealth.'
January 23. Accordingly we find the Declara-
tion was brought in by Lord Chief Juftice St. John,
and read, firft at large, and after by Parts. The
Debate on this took up the whole Day, and very
many Additions and Alterations were made to it.
In the Afternoon of this Day it was at laft perfect-
ed ; and, being put to the Queftion, was agreed to
be forthwith printed and publifhed. This Decla-
ration is in our Collection of old Pamphlets, and no
where elfe that we know of; from which Authority
it claims a Place in thefe Inquiries.
A DECLARATION of the PARLIAMENT aflembled
at Weftminfter. n
A Declaration of s f I ^ H E People of England having been necefli-
the Parliament, < J_ tated to take up Arms in the juft Defence
* of their Laws and Liberties againft the late King,
* and it having pleafed God, after a long War, and
' many Battles fought in the Field, fo to blefs their
' Armies, and to. bring the War to fuch an Iffue,
* that, if they were not wanting to themfelves, they
* might reap the Fruit of all the Blood and Treafure
* exhaufted in that Quarrel, and not only be reftored
* to their Freedom for the prefent, but fecured
' againft all the like Attempts for the future : The
4 Parliament, hereupon, as theTruftees of the People
* for the accomplifhing of thofe Ends, did declare
* and ena&, That the People of England, and of all
« the Dominions and Territories thereunto belong-
e ing, fhould be thenceforth governed as a Com-
c m on wealth and Free-State, by the Reprefentatives
* of the People in Parliament, and that without any
« King,
n Printed by John Strealer and Jobn Macock> Printers to the Par-
lisment, 1659.
Of E N G L A N D. 59
* King or Houfe of Lords ; judging this not only to Inter-regnum.
' be the undoubted Right of the People, but that the 1659.
' Office of a King in thefe Nations, or to have the ^""T"* ^
( Power thereof in any Single Perfon, as alfo the January«
* Houfe of Lords, was burdenfome and dangerous to
* the Safety and Liberty of the People : And, by this
* Means, the Foundations of a public. Intereft, being
' laid in the Place of that which was only private
' and perfonal, this People might grow up, thro' the
* Goodnefs of God, into perfect Freedom, being go-
' verned in the Supreme Power by their own Repre-
' fentatives ; and, in the Executive Power, by their
* known Laws and Judicatory ; the beft Meafure
' and Standard of Liberty. Their Navigation and
* Trade encouraged and promoted, which in all
* Monarchies is (tinted and reftrained. The true
* Proteftant Religion, both at Home and Abroad,
* owned and countenanced ; which, under the for-
* mer Conftitution, was clogg'd with vain and fuper-
* ftitious Ceremonies, and corrupt Opinions, touch-
* ing Faith and Worfhip, impofed upon all, without
* any Regard had to tender Confciences, and the
e Minifters of the Gofpel, and the Profeflbrs there-
* of, with Godlinefs itfelf,. difcountenanced and per-
'• fecuted.
' To this State of Things did the Parliament
« judge it their Duty to bring this Nation, and the
* free People thereof; and no Man can reasonably
* doubt, but that, long before this Time, the Par-
* liament, through the fame good and gracious Pre-
' fence that had accompanied their Undertakings,
*• would have accomplifhed their Intentions in thefe
* Things, and fettled the Commonwealth upon the
* Bafis and Foundation aforefaid, if they had not
4 been fo often interrupted, and thereby prevented
* hitherto from doing that which always was, and
* is, the umoft Defire and Intention of their Hearts.
' And yet the Parliament cannot but take Notice
€ of the Artifices that are ufed to mifreprefent their
* Intentions, and to blemifh their Proceedings before
* the People, unjuftly charging them with a Defign
* to perpetuate themifelves now fitting, to fubjecl the
« People
60 *Tbe Parliamentary HISTORY
* People to Arbitrary Power, and to govern them
Inter-regnum, « by porce> And as to Matters of Religion on one
t_^Jil'__j ' Hand, that they are Enemies to the Miniftry,
January. * their Maintenance by Tythes, to the Univerfities
« and Learning, and Encouragers of fanatic Princi-
' pies ; on the other Hand, that the Parliament is
* too fevere, and of impofing Principles in Matters
* of Religion, not being ignorant that thofe who,
« by thefe Means, do induftrioufly labour to difaffeci
* the People to the Parliament, are fuch, who, by
* fpecious Pretences, would firft put out their Eyes,
* that they might not fee the Way to their own
* true Liberty, and then bring them back again into
* their old Servitude.
* The Parliament, therefore, to omit nothing in
* their Power that may undeceive honeft and well-
* meaning Men, have thought it neceflary, in this
* Conjuncture of Time and Affairs, to declare and
* manifeft (as they do hereby) what their Intentions
' are, as to the Government of thefe Nations, with
4 fome other Particulars relating thereunto, wherein
* they are refolved, thro' the Goodnefs and Aflift-
* ance of God, to remain conftant and immoveable.
I. * That the Parliament will provide forthwith
* to perfect thofe Beginnings which are already
* made for fettling the Government of thefe Na-
* tions, and the People thereof, in the Way of *a
* Commonwealth and Free State, without a King,
* Single Perfon, or Houfe of Lords, in fuch Man-
' ner that they may be govern'd from Time to Tims
' by Reprefentatives in Parliament chofen by them-
' felves, in whom alone the Supreme Authority of
*• thefe Nations doth and ought to refide, and by
* fuch as they {hall appoint and conftitute as Offi-
* cers and Minifters under them for the Good of
* the People j and that the Parliament will make it
' their Care to form the Army and Forces of thefe
' Nations in fuch Manner that, whilft it (hall be
* found neceflary for them, or any of them, to be
' kept up for the Safety of the Commonwealth, they
* may be wholly fubjeft and obedient to the Civil
* Authority,
Of ENGLAND. 61
II. ' There being nothing more eflential to the Inter-regnum,
* Freedom of a State, than that the People fhould
* be governed by the Laws, and that juftice be
* adminiftered by fuch only as are accountable for
* Male- Adminiftration, it is hereby further declared,
e That all Proceedings touching the Lives, Liber-
* ties, and Eftates of all the Free People of this
* Commonwealth, fhall be according to the Laws
4 of the Land : And that the Parliament will not
4 meddle with the ordinary Adminiftration, or the
4 Executive Part of the Law ; it being the principal
* Care of this, as it hath been of all former Parlia-
* ments, to provide for the Freedom of the People
4 againft Arbitrarinefs in Government.
III. « And that they will make effectual Provi-
* iion for the countenancing of a learned and pious
4 Gofpel Miniftry through all the Three Nations,
c and for the encouraging and protecting them in the
* Work of their Miniftry againft Difturbances. And
* as to their Maintenance ; That by Tythes fhall
* be continued, it being already eftabliftied by Law,
* and is in itfelf the moft certain, convenient, and
* comfortable Way of Maintenance that, in the
4 Judgment of the Parliament, can be fettled j and
* therefore they do expect and require, that the
* Judges, Juftices of the Peace, and others whom
4 it concerns, do take Care that the Laws touching
4 the fame be put in effectual Execution : And for
4 a further Increafe of Maintenance than hath been
c antiently fettled upon preaching Minifters, the
* Parliament doth declare, That the Augmentations
4 by the Impropriations of the late King, Bilhops,
4 Deans and Chapters, and Delinquents not com-
4 pounded for, as likewife by Tenths and Firft-
4 Fruits, (hall be continued and fettled upon the
4 preaching Miniftry, not to be aliened or altered
4 from that Ufe, and diftributed in fuch Manner as
4 they may be applied to fuch Places as ftand in moft
4 need, that every Place in the Land may have a
4 preaching Minifter, who may be able to teach the
* People the good Knowledge of the Lord, and may
4 have a comfortable Livelihood and Encouragement
' among
62 The Parliamentary HISTORV
Inter-rcgnum. < among them; as a]fo that Provifion (hall be made
16 59* « for due Liberty of Confcience in Matters of Reli-
*—-v— ' < gion, according to the Word of God.
IV. ' The Parliament do declare, That they
* will uphold the public Univerfities and Schools of
* this Land, and not oniy continue to them the
* Privileges and Advantages they now enjoy, but
* fhall be ready to give them fuch further Counte-
' nance as may encourage them in their Studies,
' and promote Godlinefs, Learning, and good Man-
* jiers amongft them.
V. * The Parliament being very fenfible of the
' great Decay of the Trade of thefe Nations, will
' apply themfelves to fuch Councils and Means as
' fhall be found moft proper both for the fpeedy
* reftoring and increafing thereof, judging that there
' is no one Thing in the Affairs of State more im-
4 portant to the Welfare, Strength, and Glory of a
* Commonwealth, efpecially of this, being an Ifiand,
* than the Encouragement of Trade and Navi-
* gation.
VI. * As to the prefent Burdens which are upon
* the Nation, the Parliament is very fenfible thereof,
' and of thofe extravagant Councils and Actions
' which have engaged the Nation in fo great a
* Debt and Charge, the Guilt whereof will not reft
' upon them, tho' the Danger and Burden thereof
* doth. And it is one of the greateft Cares they
c have upon them, how to give the People that Eafe
* which their Condition calls for, and alfo provide
* for their Safety, and anfwer the preffing Neceffi-
' ties of the State j which the Parliament hopes, in
' fome Meafure, to do in a very (hort Time, in cafe
* the unreafonable Diflatisfa6tions and turbulent
' A&irigs of unquiet Men do not continue the
* Charge longer than otiierwife will be neceflary.*
Five Hundred The fame Day 500 /. a-year was voted to be fet-
Pounds a-year tied on Vice-Admiral Lawfon, and his Heirs, for
AdilTeL£-his Fidelit7 and g°od Service to the Parliament and
fath ' Commonwealth. The fame Committee who were
Of E N G L A N D. 63
appointed for the Settlement on General Monke Inter- regnum.
were to take Care of this alfo. uJl^W
January*
January 24. It was ordered, « That Col. Fleet-
wood^ the Lord Whitlocke, Mr. Strickland, and Mr.
Holland^ be and are required to attend the Parlia-
ment on this Day Se'nnight ; and that the Serjeant
at Arms, attending the Houfe, fummon them to
appear accordingly : That Col. Bennett be like-
wife injoined to attend the Parliament forthwith :
That all Clerks, and other Perfon and Perfons, in
whofe Hands or Cuftody any Letters, Books, Jour-
nals, and Papers, of the late pretended Committee
of Safety, and of any other Committees, which
acted by or under their Authority, do deliver the
fame to the Clerk of the Parliament ; and that they
be brought into this Houfe on this Day Se'nnight :
That Mr. Scobell do attend the Parliament on this*
Day Se'nnight, with all Papers concerning the
Draught of a Government, prefcnted to the late
pretended Committee of Safety, or Council of Offi-
cers of the Army.
And it likewife was ordered, * That all fuch
Members of Parliament, who have attended this
Houfe, and ought to give their Attendance here, do
attend the Service of the Parliament on this Day
Se'nnight, upon Pain of Twenty Pounds.'
The Houfe had been feveral Days in fettling the
AflefTment Bill, and naming the Commiffioners for
it throughout, and many Riders were offered and
added to it ; however, it was finally concluded on
this Day, and ordered to be printed and publimed.
After this another Bufinefs happened, which was a
Letter they received and read from Gen. Monke ,
dated at Nottingham, Jan. 22, 1659 ; as likewife
two others, from Scott and Robinfon, dated from
' Lelcejler^ Jan. 23, who were fent as Spies upon him.
In one of thefe laft was the Copy of a Letter from
the General, directed into the Weft of England,
which may be explained hereafter, though none of
their Contents are entered in the Journals. The
Con-
64 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. Confequence of thefe Letters will {hew, that they
1659. were either very pleafing to the Parliament, or that
W^V" "^ they thought it necefiary further to cajole the Ge-
January. neral by all the winning Ways they could think on :
For the fame Day a Bill was brought in, For ap-
proving and jujltfying all the late Attions of General
George Monke ; which was read a firft Time, and
ordered a fecond Reading the next Morning. The
Houfe alfo ordered, * That it fhould be fpecially
recommended to the Provoft and Fellows of Eaton
College, to ele& Mr. Gumble, his Chaplain, to the
firft Fellowfhip in that College, which fhould be
vacant by Death, or othci wife.
January 27. Col. IVlriie reported the Amend-
ments to the Bill for fettling a Committee for the
Army, and Treafurers at War, and the Names of
Perfons to be a Committee for the Army ; which
Amendments were twice read, and then the follow-
ing Gentlemen were feverally refolved upon to be a
Committee for the Army, viz. Thomas Pury, the
elder, Col. John Downes, Col. Thomas Lifter, Ed-
mundWeft !, Efq; Richard Lucy , Efq; and Anthony
Samuel, Efq; The Treafurers at War were alfo
feverally refolved on, and were, James Nelthorpey
Efq; and Mr. John Lawfon. It was then refolved,
That the. Quorum of the Committee for the Army
be three, and that the Treafurers at War and Com-
mittee for the Army do continue untill the loth of
Qttober, 1660; and that the Blank in the Bill be
filled up with thefe Words : By Warrant from the
Parliament^ Council of State, orCommijponersforthe
Army.
Another Amendment was offered to the Bill, in
thefe Words, viz. And be it enafted, and it is hereby
further enabled, That John Blackwell, and Richard
Dean, Efq; late Treafurers at War, Jhall forthwith •
pay unto the prefent Treajurers at War, by this Aft
conflituted, all and every Sum and Sums of Money,
remaining in their Hands , as Treafurers at War ;
and do henceforth forbear, and are hereby difcharged,
• to receive or difpofe of any Monies., any wav ajjigned
for
C/* ENGLAND, 6$
for the Armies and Forces of this Commonwealth ; Tnter-regnum,
which was twice read, and, on theQueftion, agreed l659-
to ; and the Bill, fo amended, was ordered to be v— -v—- J
engrofled.
January 28. Col. James Temple reported the
Amendments to the Bill for conftituting Commif-
iioners for ordering and managing the Affairs of the
Admiralty and Navy ; which were twice read, and
It was refolved, That the Number of the Commif-
fioners be twenty-one ; and that fourteen of them
be Members of Parliament. The following Gen-
tlemen were then feverally refolved upon for that
Purpofe, viz. Mr. Attorney-General Reynolds, Col.
Valentine Walt on ^ Col. Herbert Morley^ Thomas
Boone, Efq; Sir Michael Livefey, Km. and Bart.
Col. Thompfin, Mr. Edmund IVeft^ Mr. Carew
Raleigh ) Mr. Thomas Challoner* Mr. Lcnthall> Mr.
Henry Darley^ Mr. Weaver^ Mr. Dormer -3 Lord-
Commiflioner LiJIe^ Gen. George Monke, Vice-
Admiral Lazvj'on, Mr. Richard Bradfoaw^ Col.
Thomas Middleton, Edward Bujhel, Mr. Sling/by
Bethell^ and Mr. George Cowper.
' Refolved, That no one of the faid Commiffion-
ers, for the Admiralty and Navy, {hall continue in
the Chair, for putting the Queftions there, for above
a Fortnight ; and that the faid Cornmifftoneis do
take the Chair there by Turns.'
'January 30. Another Letter from Gen. Monke^
on his March up to London, was received and read.
It was dated from St. Allans, Jan. 28, 1 659, and two
Lifts were inclofed therein : The Houfe agreed
with the Diftribution of the Soldiers into Quarters,
according to thefe Lifts ; and the Commiffioners of
the Army were ordered alfo to fee the Soldiers fo
diftributed. Ten Pounds a Day was likewife al-
lowed towards the maintaining of a Table for the
Commiflioners of the Army, to begin when the
General came to Town, and to be p"aid out of the
Contingencies of the Council of State.
VOL. XXII. E At
66 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. At the fame Time a Letter from Scott and Ro*
l6S9- linfon was read. It was dated January 29, at
^T^—' Midnight : In this was inclofed a Copy of the' Ad-
drefs and Congratulation of the Gentlemen of Surfs
to the General ; as alfo a Copy of a Paper to invite
the Gentlemen of that County to meet at Aylejbury.
On the reading of which Papers the Houfe ordered,
* That the Committee for Qualifications ihoutd
meet that Afternoon, to perfect their Enquiries,
and report them the next Morning, the firft Bufi-
nefs, nothing to intervene, that the Parliament
might proceed to the filling up of the Houfe.' Or-
dered, alfo, * That the Judges who were Members,
and all other Members of Parliament in Town,
mould attend the Service of the Houfe at the fame
Time. The other Members who were ordered to
attend the Parliament the next Day, were required
to give their Attendance on the yth of February
next. Lajily, The Committee for the Army and
Treafurers at War were ordered to meet that Af-
ternoon, and to take Care to provide Money towards
the Pay of fuch of the Soldiery as mould be drawn
out of Town to the Quarters afligned for them ;
and that both Horfe and Foot mould have a Month's
Pay advanced, on a new Mufter to be made of them.
Having now brought the Month of January to a
Period, and given all the moft material Tranfa&ions
of Parliament which happened in it, and are en-
tered in the Journals, it will be neceilary to confult
the Hiftorians of thofe Times, in order to make the
former more plain and intelligible to the Reader.
Taking Notice, that as the Journals have now
brought up Gen. Monke as far as St. Albans, in his
Way to London, fo we mall be obliged to go back a.
little, and report, more particularly, what happened
to him further North on his March up.
Dr. Price's Ac- The Reverend Writer of the Hiftory of the
count of Pro- Reftoration tells us, ' That, in their March from
codings at this Xewcajlle to York, they made no Stay ; but at the
latter Place they halted five Days. Here it was they
met the Lord Fairfax^ who being now willing to
tread
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tread back the Steps he had made fo far in a wrong Jnter-regmun.
Way, had many private Conferences with Gen. l65g-
Monke about it. It was moved to the General to
flay at York^ and declare 'for the King, afluring him,
that he (hould have great Afliftance. But, juft at
that Time, the General receiving Orders from the
Parliament to march towards them, he thought it
better, for the prefent, to obey their Commands,
and go forward. Our Author hints, That the Par-
liament was jealous of the Lord Fairfax and his late
riiing, tho' feemingly, in their Favour, and therefore
thought York no fit Place for Monke to lodge his
Army in j and tho' he would not have removed
Southward without Orders, and even difputed any
Commands to return back again, yet now the co-
rning of thefe Orders to march forwards, took away
all Diftruft that the Men at IVeJlmmfler were jea-
lous of him, and he refolved to obey them.
4 From York the General made no Stay till he came
to Nottingham^ where he halted for the Rear of his
Army to come up, and hither came to him Dr,
Clargis and Mr. Gumble^ and they had all Leifure to
debate, in Council, about their further Progrefs, and
their Actings when they got to London. Various
Projects, our Author fays, were propofed, particu-
larly one, That all the Officers {hould fubfcribe to
be obedient to the Parliament, except in the Bring-
ing-in of Charles Stuart. But this was as fubtilly
oppofed, by Arguments to the Effect following •
' That this was the Way to fall into the fame Erroj:
with the Englijh Army; to make themfelves Judges,
and, confequently, Mafters of the Parliament's Ac-
tions ; for whenfoever they did any thing that we
difliked, it was but fuggefting, That the doing fuch
Things tended to the bringing him in, and by that
Way make themfelves their own Carvers/
' Thefe Arguments, our Author adds, prevailed 4
and the rather, becaufe.the Commiffioners from Par<-
liament were to meet the General at the next Stage*
which was Leicejier. But, however, to remove all
Diftruft of himfelf, he confented that a Letter
fliould be fent, in his Name, to his Countrymen in
E 2 the
68 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum, the Weft of England, wherein were many State
l659- Reafons alledged, aflerting the Impoffibiiity of the
t""r"v"""~' King's Return, and his own Proteftation againft it :
For now, it feems, he had been informed, that thefe
Weftern Gentlemen had conceived great Hopes of
him. The Reader may obferve, that a Copy of
this laft Letter is mentioned to be fent, by Scott and
Robinfon, to the Parliament ; and, no doubt, would
ftill help to remove any Jealouiies they might have
conceived of the General's Defigns.
We have been fo lucky as to retrieve this Letter
from utter Oblivion, and we fhall infert it in this
Place:
For the Honoured ROBERT HOLLES, Efq\ T'o be
communicated to the Gentlemen 0^*Devonfhire, ivho
figned the late Letter to the Speaker of the Parlia-
?nent of the Commonwealth ^England,*"
Moji honoured and dear Friends^
Gen. Monti » <T\yfEETING with a Paper, dated at Exon
Fr"n!is£ the ' IVJL ^ *3*h Inftant, directed to miliam Len-
Weft, ' thallj Efq; Speaker of the Parliament, and fub-
* fcribed by divers of my Friends and Relations,
* purporting the recalling the Members fecluded
* 1648, as the beft Expedient for eftablifliing thefe
* Nations upon a Foundation of lafting Peace, I
' have taken theBoldnefs, from my Relation to fome
' of you as allied, and my affectionate Refpects to
* all of you as dear Friends and Countrymen, to re-
* prefent to your Confideration my prefent Appre-
* henfions of the State of Affairs here, in order to all
* our better Satisfactions, wherein I humbly crave
* your Leave of Freedom without Prejudice.
' Before thefe unhappy Wars the Government of
* thefe Nations was Monarchical, both in Church
* and State. Thefe Wars have given Birth and
* Growth to feveral Interefts, both in Church and
* State, heretofore not known ; though now, upon
* many Accounts, very confiderable ; as the Prefby-
* terian, Independent, Anabaptift, and Sectaries of
«all
f From tfee Cellsftion of Mentis Letters,
O/* ENGLAND. 69
c all Sorts, as to Ecclefiaftics ; and the Purchafers of Inter-regnum*
6 the King's, Queen's, Princes, Bifhops, Deans and
6 Chapters, and all other forfeited Eftates, and all
' thofe engaged in thefe Wars againft the King, as
* to Civils. Thefe Interefts again are fo interwo-
* ven by Purchafes and Intermarriages, and thereby
6 forfeited, as I think, upon rational Grounds, it
' may be taken for granted, That no Government
c can be either good, peaceable, or lafting to thefe
* Nations, that doth not rationally include and
6 comprehend the Security and Prefervation of all
e the aforefaid Interefts, both Civil and Spiritual j I
f mean fo far as, by the Word of God, they are
' warranted to be protected and preferved. If this
' be fo, then that Government, under which we for-
c merly were, both in Church and State, viz. Mo-
c narchy, cannot pofiibly be admitted, for the future,
c in thefe Nations, becaufe its Support is taken
* away, and becaufe it is cxclufive of all the former
' Interefts both Civil and Spiritual ; all of them be-
e ing incompatible with Monarchical Uniformity in
c Church and State thus expired. That Govern-
' ment, then, that is moft able to comprehend and
6 protect all Interefts as aforefaid, muft needs be
« Republic.
' Wherefore, to me, it is no fmall Doubt, if,
e upon the Premifles, to admit of the Members fe-
' eluded in 1648, were not to obftrucl: our Peace and
* continue our War, rather than eftablifti the one
4 and end the other ; in that very many of thofe
e Members aflert the Monarchical Intereft, together
e with the Abolition of all Laws made flnce their
* Seclufion. Which I fear, upon account of Self-
c prefervation, both of Life and Eftate, as well as
' Spiritual Liberty, will immediately involve all
* thefe Nations in a moft horrid and bloody War
c afrefli ; the very Apprehenfions whereof, I con-
c fefs, 1 do infinitely dread, and fubmit the danger-
' ous Ccnfequence thereof to your prudent Confi-
' derations ; and the rather, feeing the Army alfo
c will never endure it.
£3 ' Having
yp "The Parliamentary HISTORY-
Inter-regnum, « Having thus briefly laid before you the prefent
l659- * Condition of Affairs, let me now intreat you to
.* _-~ '^'^ ' confider, whether it were not better to defift from
F0™*** * that paperj and fubmit to the Proceedings of this
' Parliament, who have refolved to fill up their
* Houfe, determine their Sitting, and prepare a Way
* for future Succeflions of Parliament ; by which
' Means being full, and thereby comprehending the
* whole Intereft of thefe Nations, they may, thro*
* God's Mercy, and all our Patiences, eftablifh fuch
* a Government in the Way of a Commonwealth,
* as may be comprehenfive of all Interefts both Spi-
* ritual and Civil, to the Glory of God, and the
* Weal and Peace of the whole. But if, by your
4 Impatiences, they be obftru&ed, our Peace will be
* fo much the longer a Stranger to us ; and we
* thereby a Prey to ourfelves, and all foreign Ene-
* mies. Wherefore, humbly prefling thefe upon
* your ferious Confederations, with all the friendly
' and affectionate Refpe&s, and Service to you all,
< I remain,
, Jan. 2 1, Tour very bumble
59.
And affeftionate Servant,
GEORGE MONKE.'
At Leicefler the abovefaid Emifiaries from Parlia-
ment met the General, whom Dr. Price calls his
Counterfeits, and were to be his Ears and his
Mouth. This, he adds, was a hard Tafk for the
General to bear, and yet not fo bad to him as it
would have been to moft other Men, becaufe he
never loved to fpeak much, and valued none that did
fo. At Harborough, the next Stage, feveral emi-
nent Citizens of London met the General ; they
complained of Grievances, which he durft not then
promife to redrefs, fo clofe did thefe Spies watch all
his Motions, for he anfwered them with few and
wary Words. The Citizens were fomewhat fur-
prized at this Reception, for they had Hopes of a
tetter, by a Letter the General had fen,t them out
of
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of Scotland) defiring their Afliftance ; but, adds the inter-regnum.
Do&or, what his Words did not promife his Coun-
tenance did ; and Care was taken by others to in-
form them, that they fliould not defpair of him.
From the laft- named Place, till the General came
to Barnet, Scott and Robinfon, the Do&or tells us,
would ftill quarter in the fame Inn with him, that
they might he prefent to anfwer the Addrefles of the
Country ; of which the moft remarkable were pre-
fented to the General at Northampton and St. Al-
lans. Our Author adds, That the Sum of the De-
fires, both of City and Country, was, either a full
and free Parliament, or the Reftitution of the feclu-
ded Members to their Seats in this. And, as it was
cbferved, That the Gentlemen who made thefe
Addrefles had not been Cavaliers, fo were they lefs
fufpe&ed by Monke's Officers, who knew only by
them what the Senfe of the Country was. Scott and
Robinfon took upon them to anfwer all thefe Addref-
fes, the General's Return being only a Nod, a
Frown, or the rubbing of his Forehead, when the
Speech was long. But, at St. Albans, when Sir
RichardTemple had fpoke long and well, Scott looked
flern, and told him, ' That he would firft take up
the Sword again, as old as he was, before the Things
they petitioned for ftiould be granted.5
It was January the 28th when the General and
bis Army came to St. Albans ; and here, we are
told, it was that he difpatched away Col. Lidcot to
the Parliament, without confulting their Commif-
iioners, defiring Quarters might be affigned to his
Army, and the Regiments which attended as Guards
to the Parliament, to be removed to Country Quar-
ters. Our Author fays, That this Requeft was,
with fome Sort of Difficulty, obtained ; but it does
not appear fo by the Abftra&s we have given from
the 'Journals ; though, he adds, the Parliament had
no Reafon to be diffident of the General ; for his
whole Army, with which he was to enter the Town,
was fomewhat lefs than thofe which were to walk
out : And the Parliament having had long and frefti
Ex-
72 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Experience of the reftlefs Spirit of their Englifl) Sol-
diers, they muft look upon their Scots as Men of a
different Temper, and better to be trufted. Nor,
uary' indeed, could they do lefs than to take thefe their
Reftorers for their Guards, the Smallnefs of their
Number not giving the leaft Shadow of Jealoufy :
And when they were at London they were not to be
under the fole Command of Monkey becaufe the
Army was governed by Commiflioners, and Hafil-
rigge would not allow, adds the Doctor, that our
General fhould be called by any other Name than
Commiffioner Monke.
It may be remembered, that, on the fame Day
the Parliament received the laft Meflage from the
General, they alfo got a Letter from Scott and Ro-
binfon, informing them with the Addrefies of the
Country to him, which Dr. Price explains the Te-
nor of above, and which produced the fubfequent
Order of the Houfe. But this Writer further tells
us, That, befides Addrefles, the General was bu-
fied in receiving numerous Viilts; all of which were
very diftafteful to thofe Honourable Spies, Scot t and
Robinfon, who fometimes in Civility, or for Dif-
patch of their own Bufmefs, would withdraw : But
their Apartment was only feparated from the Ge-
neral's by a Wainfcot-Door, through which they
either found or made a Hole to hear and fee. This
the General took Notice of to our Author, and
animadverted upon it with a Sort of fcornful Indig-
nation.
We hope the Reader will forgive a Digrefiion
from the main Subject, if we infert the following
Story in our Author's own Words. Speaking of
their Quarters at St. /Jlbansy he adds, * But here
we fpent one Day extraordinary at the Church ;
the famous Hugh Peters, Mr. Lee of Hatfidd, and
another, carrying on the Work of the Day, which
was a Faft. Peters fupererogated, and prayed a
]ong Prayer in the General's Quarters too at Night.
As for his Sermon, he managed it with fome Dex-
terity at the firft, allowing the Cantings of his Ex-
preflions :
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preffions : His Text was Pfalm cvii. 7. He led tkem Inter-regmn«.
y<7r/£ by the right Way, that they might go to the ^59 •
City of Habitation. With his Fingers on the Cu- v*"7"v"""'1*'*
filion he meafured the right Way from the Red January*
Sea, through the WilderneTs, to Canaan ; told us it
was not forty Days March, but God led Ifrael forty
Years through the Wildernefs before they came thi-
ther; yet this was ft ill the Lord's right Way, who
led his People crinkledom cum crankledom. And he
particularly defcended into the Lives of the Patri-
archs, how they journey'd up and down, tho' there
were Promifes of Bleffing and reft to them. Then
he reviewed our Civil Wars, our Intervals of Peace,
and frefh Diffractions and Hopes of Reft ; but tho'
the Lord's People, he faid, were not yet come to
the City of Habitation, he was ftill leading them on
in the right Way, how dark foever his Difpenfations
might appear to us. Before he concluded, he feem'd
to me to preach his own Funeral Sermon.
' But it was in thofe Days obferved of an Army-
Faft, that it commonly proved the Fore-runner of
fome folemn Mifchief, and rendered their Gover-
nors (whofe Supremacy, in Caufes Ecclefiaftical,
was not owned by thefe Kind of Subjects) jealous
of them : For they would not fcruple religioufly to
meet to feek the Lord, without the Mandate and
Direction of their Mafters ; and, in Truth, they
knew fo well at what Turning to find him, that
their Seeking was never in vain/
We now leave the Doctor and his General at
St. Allans a-while, and go back to fee what is be-
come of our other two Contemporary Hiftorians,
Whitlocke and Ludlow, efpecially fince the Whirl of
thefe Times, we find, greatly affected them both.
In the Courfe of the Journals, before given, the
Reader might obferve that Ludlow was indicted for
High Treafon, and Whitkcke ordered to attend the
Parliament at the Bar of the Houfe ; let us then
fee what Account they give of th mfelves, in thefe
A ffairs, in their own Works.
After
74 ffle Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. After the Dialogue before-mentioned, between
1659. Wbitlocke and Fleetwood, about being before-hand
»-— v^-* with Monke in reftoring the King, and the latter's
January. j^f^ tnat Memorialift goes on and tells us,
initlotkSs Ac-' That Col. Ingoldjby and fome others applied to
count of Aftairs hjm ; ancj} reprefenting the prefent Circumftances
at this Period j of- Affa|rS) advifed him to make off with the Great
Seal, and convey it to the King j but he, unluckily,
not confenting, they left him, and made Terms for
themfelves : That, afterwards, when the old Par-
liament was reftored to their Seats again, Wbitlocke
faw how Things paffed, and knew very well they
would be fevere againft him for adting in the Com-
mittee of Safety : That Scott and Nevil had threaten-
ed to take away his Life; the former having faid,
That be Jhould be bang'd with the Great Seal about
his Neck-, all which made him confider how to pro-
vide for his own Safety.
* However, having a Summons amongft the reft
to take his Seat in the Houfe, he ventured to appear
there, and found many of his old Friends, who all
looked very my upon him ; and fome of them ad-
vifed him not to come to the Houfe on the Day ap-
pointed to confider of abfent Members. That, fome
Days after, obferving a great Sharpnefs in the Houfe
towards thofe who had acted during the Interrup-
tion ; and being alfo informed of the Defign of
fome to queftion him there, and to have him fent
to the Toiver, he thought it moft advifeable to leave
them, and retire to a Friend's Houfe in the Coun-
try. Thus this Weathercock of a Man, who had
chopped and changed with every Form of Govern-
ment fince the Regal one was fubverted, had now
jnade himfelf fo faft, that, not being able to get
backward or forward, he thought it beft to abfcond
rather than wait his Doom. Here he ftill continued
to write his Memoirs ; but nothing more is to be
found in them than what is in much better Au-
thorities.
Luil*w\ alfo. Our other Memorialift, Ludlow, was a Man that
e4 upon much more ftsady Principles than the
former -a
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former j and, through the whole Courfe of his Me* Inter-regnum.
moirs, preferves a firm Attachment to the Repub- *659«
lican Scheme, of having the Government of thefe *— — v— ••*
Nations put into the Hands of a purged Houfe of Janu8IT*
Commons, and a Council of State, without Houfe
of Lords, or any Single Perfon whatfoever. This
Maxim, we fay, he purfued to the laft ; and, being
much more explicit than our former Hiftorian, on
the prefent Pofture of Affairs, we ihall beg Leave
to quote his own Words, making no Apology for the
Numbers of them, fince they help much further
to explain many Hints already given from the
Journals, and fet them in a clearer Light to the
Reader. After reciting the many Proteftations that
Monke made, in his March from the North, to ftand
by and defend the Parliament, he adds, « The Par-
liament being willing to encourage him in the good
Refolutions he profeiled to have taken, fent Mr.
Thomas Scott and Mr. Luke Robinfon, Members of the
Houfe, to be Commiffioners from them to him. Mr.
Scott had kept a long Correfpondence with him, and,
after the laft Interruption, had publifhed fome of his
Letters, wherein Monke declared his Refolution to
live and die with the Parliament, without a King,
Single Perfon, or Houfe of Lords. Thefe two Per-
fons were, in Appearance, much courted by Monkey
who pretended to be wholly direded by their Advice.
And when the CommilTioners for the City of Lon-
don, or the Gentry of thofe Parts where he paffed,
applied themfelves to him for the Reftitution of the
fecluded Members, he referred them to the Judge-
ment of the Parliament, to whom, he faid, he was
refolved intirely to fubmit. He alfo follicited Sir
Arthur Hafilrigge^ and fome others of the Houfe,
that the Sectarian Party might be removed out of
the Army, fending a Lift of the Names of all thofe
who had been continued in their Employments by
the Army, during the late Interruption ; and pre-
tended that a Commonwealth could not poffibly
be eftabliftied whilft fuch Men were in Power.
What he did relating to the Affairs of Ireland*
was carried more covertly, and coloured with the
Name
76 The Parliamentary H i s TOR v
Inter-regnum. Name of Sir Charles Coote. And becaufe he knew
l6*9- I had fome Reputation with Sir Arthur Hafilrigge,
V- v—' and the Commonwealth-Party of the Houfe, he
'ary* made ufe of Sir Anthony JJhley Cooper, Mr. Weaver,
Mr. Juftice St. John, Mr. Robert Reynolds, and
fome others, to obtain what he defired in that Mat-
ter.
' Thefe Gentlemen were informed that the Coun-
cil of State, notwithftanding all the Arts that had
been ufed to calumniate me, had agreed upon a
Report to be made to the Parliament, That Sir
Hardrefs Waller, Lieut. Col. Walker, and Major
Godfrey, might be intrufted, in Conjunction with
jne, with the Management of Affairs in Ireland.
They knew alfo that the two laft would be ready to
do any honeft Thing I fhould advife ; and there-
fore fearing, left the Parliament might agree with
the Council of State upon the Report, they procured
the Debate to be adjourned for three Days, within
which Time they fo ordered the Matter, that Col.
Bridges, and the two Warrens, prefented to the
Parliament the Charge of High Treafon againft the
Commiffioners and me, as I mentioned before :
Whereof Monke's Party in the Houfe made fuch
Advantage, as not only to refufe their Concurrence
with the Council of State, in their Report concern-
ing me, but alfo, by the Help of the Lawyers Rhe-
toric, who were my profefled Adverfaries on account
of my Endeavours to reform the Practice of the Law,
pafled a Vote to require me to deliver the Fort ot
Duncannon into the Hands of the Profecutors ; fome
of them moving, that, in cafe of Refufal, I fhoud
be declared a Traitor, and fent for in Cuftody ;
which perhaps might have parted alfo, if Mr. Henry
Nevill, who fingly had the Courage to defend me
in that Conjuncture, had not fpoken in my Behalf,
defiring them not to entertain a Jealoufy of a faith-
ful Servant upon Informations unproved, nor to do
any thing to the Prejudice of my Reputation, till I
fhould be heard ; when, he doubted not, I would
make appear, that I had always endeavoured to pro-
mote their Service : But I was not the only Perfon
born 2
Of ENGLAND. 77
borne down by this Torrent. Sir Arthur Hafilrigge inter-regnum.
himfelf having parted with Sir Henry Vane and Ma- '659.
jor Sal-way^ his molt able and beft Friends, began *•* •"V*" >^
to lofe Ground, and all that he faid in the Houfe or Jaauary'
elfe where to go for nothing. And tho' they could
find no Colour to remove him as they had done the
other two, yet having already rendered him infigni-
ficant in the Parliament, they refolved he fhould
have as little Power in the Army. To that End it
was contrived that Monke {hould write to the Par-
liament, that, for their greater Security, the Forces
that were in and about London, amounting to about
7 or 8000 Horfe and Foot, might be removed to a
farther DLftance, to make Room for thofe that he
had with him, prefuming to name to the Parliament
fome particular Regiments which he principally in-
filled to have removed, amongft which Sir Arthur
Hafilrigge^ Regiment of Horfe was one. And fo
tame was the Parliament grown, that tho' it was
moft vifible he defigned their Ruin, yet, on his bare
Word and empty Proteftations, they not only
trufted him, but obeyed him as their Superior, and
ordered all that he defired to be put in Execution.
* Notwithftanding this unhappy Pofture of Af-
fairs, thinking it my Duty to clear ruyfelf of the
Afperfions caft upon me, and to improve the fmall
Intereft I had left for the Service of the Public Caufe,
I refolved to take my Place in Parliament : And, in
order thereunto, being accompanied by Mr. Henry
Nevill, I attended Sir Arthur Hafilrigge at White*
ball9 where I gave him a ftiort Account of my Ac-
tions fince I had laft feen him, of my Endeavours in
Ireland to ferve the Public, of the State of Affairs
there, of the Principles and Practices of thofe that
had aflumed the Power in that Country, and of the
Readinefs of the Soldiers, and moft of the Officers
in that Army, to have ferved the Parliament faith-
fully and ufefully, if they had been true to them-
felves and their own Intereft. I alfo acquainted
him with the Senfe I had of the late fevere, if I
might not fay unjuft, Proceedings againftme, which
feemed to me to be fuch a Requital of my faithful
Service?:
^8 tfhe Parliamentary HISTORIC
tnter-regnum. Services, that if I expected ray Reward from Meri^
1659. I {hould rather chufe to ferve the Great Turk. But
U»— "*>•—• W that I might not be wanting to myfelf, and in order
January, tQ juft|fy my own Innocence, if 1 could do no fur-
ther Good, I had refolved to go to the Parliament-
Houfe the next Morhino;, defiring his Advice and
that of Mr. Nevill for my Government when I
fhould come thither. Sir Arthur was unwilling to
Center into any Difcourfe concerning what had lately
paired, faying;, It was too late to recall Things now;
and then told us how his Enemies thought to en-
fnare him, by Monke's Motion to the Parliament
for removing his Regiment from London^ thinking
thereby to create a Difference between him and
Monke, wherein he had difappointed them by defi-
ring their Removal himfelf, contrary to their Ex-
pectation j entering into a prolix Commendation of
Monke; and afTuring us, that he was a Perfon on
whofe Fidelity they might fafely rely.
4 If I may be permitted to deliver my Senfe
touching this" Difcourfe of Sir Arthur Hafilrigge, I
conjecture it proceeded partly from an Apprehen-
fion that Things were already gone fo far, that he
doubted whether he {hould put any Stop to them,
and partly from fome Sparks of Hope that Monks
could not be fuch a Devil to betray a Truft fo freely
repofed in him ; for he kept a conftant Correfpon-
dence with Sir Arthur, and in all his Letters re-
peated the Engagements of his Fidelity to the Par-
liament, with Expreflions of the greateft Zeal for a
Commonwealth Government.
In the Conclufion it was agreed between us, that
"when I came into the Houfe 1 {hould iit as privately
as I could, and obferve the Temper of the Mem-
bers, before I fhould put them upon the Confidera-
tion of my Affair. Accordingly I went to the Houfe,
and though they had ufed me in the Manner A have
related, yet they treated me very civilly, fome of
them telling me, in a jefting Way, that it was not
ufual for Men, accufed of High Treafon, to be fo
well received in that Place. Having taken out a
Copy of the Charge exhibited againff tlje Commif-
fjoners
Of ENGLAND. 79
{loners and me, I found the Commiffioners to be Inter-regnum.
charged with altering their Title, during the late l6&*__ t
Interruption, from Commiffioners of Parliament to p r~*~^
Commiffioners of the Commonwealth ; and that they
had fent a Ship of War to prevent any Relief to, or
Correfpondence with, the Garrifon of ^yr, in Scot-
land, who had declared for the Parliament : Befides
which, Col. "John 'Jones was accufed for taking part
with the Army againft the Parliament, not only in
the Particulars aforefaid, but alfo in his Anfwer to
the Letter written by Monke to me, on Suppofition
that I was then in Ireland^ to invite me to a Con-
junction with him for the Reftitution of the Parlia-
ment ; and likewife for promoting a Subfcription to
the Government of the Army amongft the Officers
in Ireland. As for me, I was charged with affifting
the Army in England^ and doing A£h of Hoftility
by Sea and Land againft thofe in Ireland^ who had
declared for the Parliament. Whereupon I moved
the Houfe that they would be pleafed, according to
their Order, to hear me touching their Affairs in
Ireland^ and to permit me to juftify myfelf, which
J did the rather that I might have an Opportunity
to procure that mifchievous Order for the Surrender
of Duncannon to be recalled, hoping that it had not
yet been put in Execution. But all that I could
obtain was, to have a Day appointed when I mould
be heard. Mr. Miles Corbett, who arrived in Eng-
land fome Days before me, was fo terrified with the
Proceedings of the Parliament againft Sir Henry
Vane and Major Salway, together with the Name
of a Charge of High Treafon againft himfelf, that
he had never appeared publickly fmce his Arrival,
till, upon fome Difcourfe with me, he took Courage,
and went with me to the Houfe/
But we now leave thefe political Hiftorians and
go on with the Journals :
February i. The Parliament, ever fmce it was
re-inftated in its Power and Authority, had gi-
ven out new Commiffions, by the Hands of their
Speaker, almoft every Day, to the Officers of the
Army;
80 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Ipter-regnum. Army j and was continued this Month, in order to
1659. make them, in fame Meafure, acknowledge the
^^~v~** - Parliament as the Source from whence they deduced
February. ^e\r Maintenance and Support. But knowing very
well that alone would not keep thefe reftlefs Spirits
quiet, and being alarmed at fome Disturbance made
by the Troops that were removed from London to
make Way for Monke and his Army to take up their
Quarters, they this Day ordered the Committee for
the Army to iilue out Warrants for one Month's ad-
ditional Pay to be given to thofe Regiments of Horfe
and Foot who marched out on this Occalion.
The fame Day they received another Letter from
General Monke., dated St. Albans, Jan. 30, 1659,
the Purport of it not entered ; but, after the read-
ing of it, it was ordered, * That the Cuftody of St.
James's Park be, and is hereby, granted and com-
mitted unto Commiflioner General George Monke t
to hold and enjoy the Cuftody of the laid Park du-
ring the Pleafure of the Parliament.'
The Serjeant at Arms was ordered forthwith
to take Sir Henry Vane into Cuftody, and to take
Care that he be conveyed to his Houfe at Bellew, in
order to his going to his Houfe at Raby, according
to the former Order of Parliament.
A Committee appointed to infpecl the public
Treafuries of the Commonwealth, to fee what Mo-
nies are there, and give a fpeedy Account thereof to
Parliament.
Lieut. Gen. Ludlow was ordered to give an Ac-
count to the Houfe of the Affairs in Ireland, on this
Day Se'nnight ; the Petition from the Company of
Foot in Duncannon Fort to be then read.
Lajlly, the Bill for approving and juftifying the
Actions of General George Monke, was read a fe-
cond Time, and, upon the Queftion, ordered to be
ingrofled.
February 2. The Aft for conflicting a Com-
mittee for the Army and Treafurers at War, was
this Day read a third Time, and palTed, and was
crdered to be printed and publifhed.
Col.
Of ENGLAND. 8i
Col. tfcbite reported from the Committee of Infpe&ion of
the Public Money the following Account :
Remain, ended Oft. 12,
Receipts fithence, ufque Dec. 27,
1659. Public Revenue.
Cuftoms and Sublidies .. .. ..
Excife and New Impoft —
Farmers of the Excife of Beer
Tonnage and Poundage of Coals
Conveying Water \ioWeftminfter
Poftage of Letters
Farmers of the IfTues of Jurors
Receiver- General - .
Rents of Lands «.. •<
Fines for Alienations . ....
Probate of Wills — —
Sheriffs of Counties, 13 c.
Sheriffs of Cities, &V. —
Compofitions in the Exchequer
Recufants ••• • - .
Lands feized and extended —
Treafurers at Drary-Houfe —
Commiffioners of Excife, &c. 1
for Beer, fcfV. ]
Treafurers for the Piedmont \
Money
Arrears of Subfidies •
Treafurers for Dean and Chap- 1
ters Lands 3
Loan-Money — — •
Public Money deposited, and 7
not yet accounted for J
Whereof
To Gualier Froft, Efq; Trea-T
farer of the Council's Contingen- 1
cies, in Part of is;oo/. for Con- >
tingencies, by Order of the Coun- 1
cil of State, dated Sept. 17, 1659
To him more, in Part of 3000 /.
by Order of the Council of State,
dated OR. 13, 1659
Carried over,
VOL. XXII. F
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38273
»9
3*
27788
i
3
4567
9
o
20OO
o
o
3
4
2999
5
7
I
10
o
335°
0
o
67
16
8
400
o
o
120
0
0
48
0
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4
2
o
o
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o
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'8
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4
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6
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5
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2500
o
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1014
o
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280 o o
IOOO O O
1280
115580 i (5
82
*The Parliamentary HITOSRY
/.
1280
522 19 9
'- Brought over,
To him more, by Order of the J
Council of State, dated Off. 25, J- 1450 o o
1659, for Salaries 3
To him more, in Part of 7coo/. 1
in Satisfaftion of Warrants charg'd /
on him, and anfwering Bills of Ex- f
change, by Order dated Ofl. 25-, 1
1659
To him more, by Order dated")
Oft. 20, 1659, to be by him if- ( 2QO
lued to Mr. Scott, one of the f
Members of the Council J
To him more, by Letters Pa- "J
tent, dated Nov. 24, 1659, to be (
by him ifiued upon Warrants from C
the Committee of Safety J
To him more, in Part of 5 coo /. '
for the Garrifon of Dunkirk,
Letters Patent, dated Nav.
1659
To Richard Hutchinfon, Efqj'
Treafurer of the Navy, in Part of
i ooooo /. by Order of the Coun-
cil of State, dated Sept. 7, 1659
To him more, in Part ofl
•zcoooo/. by Letters Patent, da- V 19023 17
ted Dec. i, 1659 3 ~~"
557 =
coo/. T
*, by f
\ 28, r
II2D O
9
J
72989 10
To John Blackwell and Ricbar<T
Deane, Efqrs. Treafurers at War,
in full of what remained due to
them upon an Order of the Com-
mittee of Safety, of May 18, 1659,
by Letters Patent, dated Dec. i,
1659
To them more, in Part of"]
I7397/. 71. j d. in full of what \
remains due unto them upon an •
Order of the Council of State, off 3'
July 12, 1659, by the falne Let- i
ters Patent J
4043 10 6
1
18 sU
7457
Carried over,
19
T«
I
5 °°
IOOO O O
750
Of ENGLAND.
/. S. £
Brought over,
To John Brefly, Efq; Treafurer")
for fick and maimed Soldiers, in j
Part of 4490 / being the Remain- j
derof 6ooo/. for two Months Pay, }«•
appointed by Order of Parliament j
to be paid to the fick and maimed J
Soldiers, by Order of the Council j
of State, dated Oft, 14, 1659
To him more, upon Account,
for fick and maimed Soldiers, by
Letters Patent, dated Nov. 24,
1659
To him more, in Part of 3000 /.
for fick and maimed Soldiers, by
Letters Patent, dated Dec. 16,
1659
Affairs of Flanders.
To Edward Blackwell, of Lon-~\
don, Goldfmith, in full of 4000 /. |
to be by him tranfmitted to Dun- ^
kirk, by Order of the Council of |
State, dated Sept. 27, 1659 J
To him more, upon the weekly")
Sum of i 200 /. to be by him tranf- j
mitted to Dunkirk, by Order of the ^-
Council of State, dated Oft. 20, j
1659 J
To him more, in Part of i ooo /. ")
being fo much charged on him by |
Bill of Exchange from the Lord )>
Lodbart, by Order of the Council j
of State, dated Oft. 20, 16^9 J
To him more, in Part of")
4600 /. to be by him paid to the \
Commander in Chief of the Forces ^
at Dunkirk, by Letters Patent, da- |
ted Dec. i, 1659 J
To him. more, in full of an")
Order of the Council of State, of j
Otl. 20, 1659, for 1000 /. being J
fo much charged on him by Bill V
of Exchange from the Lord Lock- j
hart, by Letters Patent, dated |
Dec. i, 1659 J
/. s.
86019 *9
v. 2250
o o
2901 10 8 "
1 200 o o
2400 o o
326 1 6 5
501
10
f 2
Carried ever, 9577* 9
40 o o
£4 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Brought over,
Fees and Penfions.
To the Lady Elizabeth Carr,~\
in Part of i6o/. for the Arrears of j
a Penfion of ico/. per Ann. due !
for one Year feven Months and f
nine Days, by Letters Patent, j
dated Dec. 13, 1659 J
To Cornelius He/land, Efq; for")
Arrears of a Penfion of 80 /. per j
Ann. due for fix Years and an half, j
ended Sept. 29, 1659, by Letters •
Patent, dated Dec. 19, 1659. By r
two Tallies, 400 /. on Aliena-
tions; and I20/. on Probate of
Wills
To Bulftrode Lord Wbitlocke,"
Keeper of the Great Seal of Eng-
land, upon his Fee of iooo/. per
Ann. unpaid unto him for Mi-
cbaelmas Term laft, by Letters
Patent, dated Dec. 20, 1659. By
Tally on the Excife-Office
To Sir Andrew Dick, Knt. up-
on his Penfion of 5 /. per Wee
/.
957;
520
o o
2CO O O
30 o o
:s.
j}
1225 o o
for fix Weeks, ended Nov. \ 2,
1659, by Order of Parliament of }
Aug. 1 1, 1659 J
Payments of fundry Natures.
To Mr. Symball, due and ow-
ing to him by the State, for Coals
Oats, &c. by Order of the Coun-
cil of State, dated Off. 13, 1659
To Martin Noel/, in Satisfac--*
tion of feveral Sums of Money /
by him paid upon Bills of Ex- > 2000
change, by Order of the Council J
of State, dated QEl. 3, 1659
To Robert Walton, Citizen and^
Draper of London, for black Cloth
by him heretofore fold and deli •
vered for the Funeral of his late
Highncfs Oliver Lord Proteftor,
by Letters Patent, dated Nov. 22,
1659. By Tally on Dr#ry-Hou/e .
Carried orer, 70154. 6 5
840 o
6929 651
96611
9 To
Of ENGLAND. 85
/. i. d. I- s- '-
Brought over, 10154 6 5 96611 9 II
To Job* Marios, Efq; for Dif-"
burfemenrs in the Bufinefs of In-
telligence, and other public Ser-
vices to the Commonwealth by
> 2999 5 7
him done and performed, by Let-
ters Patent, dated Dec. 3, 1659.
By Tally on the Port Office
To GfOfgs Downing, Efq; in"
Part of 1216 /. 9-r. 10 d. due and
owing to him upon his Account of
Monies difburfed for the Service
. 200 o o
of his Negotiation in ttfe Low-
Countries, by Letters Patent, dated
Dec. 12, 1659
To Jobn Blackwell, Efq; Ad-'
miniftrator of the Goods and Chat-
+ 16367 12 0
tels of Jskn Black-well, his Father,
deceafed,inPart of 14967. is. id.
II2979 l "
due to the Eftate of his faid Fa-
t-rver, upon an Order of Parliament
of Nov. 15, 1659, difcovered by
> 1014 o o
Receipts from p. 81.
115530 16 ii
him, by Letters Patent, dated
Difburferr.ents as
Dec. 19, 1659. By Tally on
above,
Thomas Wbittington
112979 I II
To Capt. Thomas Lodington, in"
Part of 5000 /. for Viftuals of fe-
veral Sorts, Hay, and other Provi-
fions, by him tranfported to Dun-
» 2OOO O O -
kirk, by Letters Patent, dated
Dec. 8, 1659. By Tally on 0ra0j*
tiwft .
And fo remaineth in the Receipt of the Public 1 2611 o
Exchequer, this 27th Day of December, 16593 ->
Then the Houfe came to the following Refolutions :
' Refolved, That the Sum of 520 /. be paid out of the Public
Revenue of the Exchequer to Cornelius Holland,, Efq; upon Pre-
tence of Arrears of a Penfion of 20 /. per Annum, alledged to be
due for fix Years and a Half, ending the 2Qth of September^ 1659,
was paid and iflued out by an illegal Warrant.
* Ordered, That Cornelius Holland, Efq; on Sight of this Or-
der, do forthwith pay the faid Sum of 2507. into the Public Re-
ceipt of the Exchequer, for the Ufe of the Commonwealth.
F 3 'Re-
86 tfhe Parliamentary HISTORY
Tnter-regnum, * Refolved, That the Sum of 520 /. paid out of
l659- the Public Revenue of the Exchequer, to BulJIrodc
*- — v—~ ' Lord Whitlocke, upon Pretence of his Fee of iooc/.
February. ^ ^nnumy unpaid unto him for Michaelmas Term
laft, upon Pretence of Letters Patent, dated Decem-
ber 20, 1659, was paid and iffued out by an illegal
Warrant.
« Ordered, That Bulfirode Lord Wbltlocke do
forthwith, on Sight hereof, pay into the public Re-
ceipt of the Exchequer, the faid Sum of 250 /. for
the Ufe of the Commonwealth.
« Ordered, That the Plate, in the Cuftody of
the Committee appointed toHake Care of the Goods
belonging to the Commonwealth, in Whitehall and
Hampton-Court, be forthwith fold; and that the
Money raifed thereby do go towards Payment of
the Army.
« Refolved, That in cafe any Tally or Tal-
lies, hath or have been {truck for the Sum of
6929 /. 6 s. $d. or any Part thereof, or any Part of
the faid Money paid unto Robert Walton, Citizen and
Draper of London^ for black Cloth by him hereto-
fore fold and delivered for the Funeral of the late
Lord -General Cromwell^ the fame was done by
illegal Warrant ; and it is ordered, That all Monies
paid out of the Treafuries of the Commonwealth,
by Colour of any fuch Warrant, be forthwith re-
paid by the faid Robert Walton.
Col. White alfo reported a Paper delivered in to
the faid Committee of Infpections, by John Thurloey
Efq; which was read,
« Refolved, That a Warrant for a Tally on the
Poll-Office for Payment of 2999^ 5*. jd. to John
Thurloe^ Efq; for Difburfements in the Bufinefs of
Intelligence, and other public Services to the Com-
monwealth by him, by Colour of Letters Patent,
dated December 12, 1659, is null and void.
« Ordered, That the faid Paper and Cafe of John.
Thurloe^ Efq; touching his Difburfements and "Ser-
vices for the Commonwealth, be referr'd to the Con-
fideration of the Council of State, and they to report
their Opinion therein to the Parliament forthwith.
Of E N G L A N D. 87
4 Ordered, That the whole Bufinefs concerning Inter-regnum.
the Port- Office, and what hath been received by
Mr. Prideauxj late Attorney- General, out of the
fame, and what Account hath been made thereof,
be referred to a Committee to examine, and they to
ftate the Matter of Fact, and report it to the Parlia-
ment, with their Opinion thereon.
' Refolved, That the pretended Warrant for
Payment of ioi4/. to John Blackwell, Efqj in Part
of 14967. u. 2(L pretended to be due to the Eftate
of "John Blackwell^ Efq; deceafed, upon an Order of
Parliament of the I5th of November •, 1650, and
other Warrants for Payment of 1800 /. more, and
all other Tallies ftruck for the fame, are illegal :
And it is
« Ordered, That the faid John Black-well do
forthwith, on Sight of this Order, pay into the pub-
lic Exchequer the Sum of ioi4/. received out of
the public Revenue of the Exchequer, by Colour of
the faid Warrant or Warrants.
4 Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee,
to whom the Bufinefs touching the Poft-Office is
referred, to examine what Sum or Sums of Money,
or other Satisfaction in Lands, or otherwife, have
been paid or made to "John Blackwell^ Efq; deceafed,
or to the faid John Blackwell, his Son, in Satisfaction
of the faid pretended Debt, and report it to the Par-
liament.
February 3. This Day the Houfe refumed the
Debate on the Qualifications, but could not agree
on the firft Paragraph of it, fo adjourned it to the
next. Thefe Qualifications were debated de Die in
Diem for fome Time before they were concluded ;
we mail therefore poftpone them till they were fi-
nally agreed upon, and then an Abftracl of the Acl:
itfelf may be fufficient, as they were all vacated by a
Refolution of the Houfe on the 24th of this Month.
The City of London feems now to be growing
very tumultuous ; for, this Day, it was ordered,
That it be be referred to the Council of State, to ex-
amine
88 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-rfgnum, amine the whole Bufmefs touching the Difturbances
1659. which happened laft Night in the City of London, to
<> — s-~> ftate the Matter of Fact, and report their Opinion,
February. wkat was £t to ^e (]one therein, and how to pre-
vent the like Tumults for the future.'
February 4. Ordered, « That Commiffioner-
General Monke do attend the Houfe on Monday
next the 6th Inftant, to receive the Senfe of the
Parliament, in Relation to his fignal and faithful
Services ; and that Mr. Scott and Mr. Robinfon do
accompany him.'
February 6. But, on this Day, we find no Men-
tion made of an Interview between the General and
the Parliament, in the Journals ; though it certainly
happened. There is a Hiatus, marked with Afte-
rifms, at the End of this Day's Proceedings, in
which, 'tis probable, the Clerk fhould have entered
it : But we have met with the Speech the General
made to the Houfe, at this their firft Meeting, which
we give as follows : b
Mr. Speaker,
General Monke^s*. /t Mongft the many Mercies of God to thefe
firft Speech to t rA poor Nations, your peaceable Reftoration
»V,» U,.1;,r^r,r J- •*• ». ? J. » .
_
the Parliament, t is nQt the Jeaft .
c belongs the Glory of it. And I efteem it as a
« great Effect of his Goodnefs to me, that he was
' pleafed to make me, amongft many worthier in
' your Service, fome way inftrumental in rt. I did
* nothing but my Duty, and do not deferve to re-
' ceive fo great Honour and Refpect as you are
4 pleafed to give me at this Time and Place, which
* 1 fliall ever acknowledge as an, high Mark of your
' Favour to me.
' Sir, I fliall not now trouble you with large
*. Narratives, only give me Leave to acquaint you,
« that, as I marched from Scotland hither, I obferved
the
H From a Cngle Pamphlet, intituled, The Lord-General Monke'*
Speech, delivered by him in the Parliament, on Monday, February §,
1659. Edinburgh, re-printed by Chriftopher Higgins, in Hart*«
Clofe, ovcr.againfl tie Troae Church, 1660.
Of E N G L A N D. 89
£ the People in moft Counties in great and earneft Inter-regnum*
* Expectations of Settlement ; and they made feve- l653-
' ral Applications to me, with numerous Subfcrip- '""TV ""^
« tions. The chiefeft Heads of their Defires were,
* For a free and full Parliament, and that you would
* determine your fitting ; a Gofpel Miniftry j En-
* couragement of Learning and Univerfities ; and for
* Admittance of the Members fecluded before 1648,
* without any previous Oath or Engagement. To
* which I commonly anfwered, That you are now
* in a free Parliament ; and if there be any Force
* remaining upon you, I would endeavour to remove
' it; and that you had voted to fill up your Houfe,
4 and then you would be a full Parliament alfo ;
* and that you had already determined your fitting.
* And for the Miniftry, their Maintenance, the
* Laws and Univerfities, you had largely declared
* in your laft Declaration, and I was confident you
4 would adhere to it ; but as for thofe Gentlemen
* fecluded in the Year 1648, I told them you had
* given Judgement in it, and all People ought to>
« acquiefce in that Judgment ; but to admit any
' Members to fit in Parliament, without a previous
* Oath or Engagement to fecure the Government
* in Being, it was never yet done in England. And
' although I faid it not to them, I muft fay it, with
' Pardon, to you, That the lefs Oaths and Engage-
* ments are impofed, (with Refpedt had to the Se-
' curity of the Common Caufe) your Settlement
* will be the fooner attained to. I am the more
* particular in thefe Matters, to let you fee how
* grateful your prefent Confultations about thefe
' Things will be to the People. I know all the fo-
* ber Gentry will heartily clofe with you, if they
* may be tenderly and gently ufed ; and I am fure
* you will fo ufe them, as knowing it to be our
* common Concern, to expatiate, and not to nar-
* row our Interefts : And to be careful neither the
* Cavalier nor Fanatic Party have yet a Share in
' your Civil or Military Power ; of the laft of whofe
* Impatience to Government, you have had fo fe-
* vere Experience.
90 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. < I fliould fay fomething of Ireland and Scotland :
< Indeed Ireland is in an ill Condition, and made
' worfe by your fudden Interruption, which pre-
* vented the paffing an Adi for the Settlement of the
c Eftates of Adventurers and Soldiers there, which
« I heard you intended to have done in a few Days ;
* and I prefume it will be quickly done, being fo
* neceflary at this Time, when the Wants of the
* Commonwealth call for Supplies, and People will
' unwillingly pay Taxes for thofe Eftates of which
c they have no legal Aflurance. I need not tell
* you how much your Favour was abufed in the
* Nomination of your Officers of your Army there :
« Their Malice hath been fufficiently manifefted. I
* I dare affirm that thofe now that have declared for
* you, will continue faithful, and thereby evince,
* that, as well there as here, it is the fober Intereft
* that muft eftablifh your Dominion.
* As for Scotland; I muft fay the People of that
' Nation deferve much to be cherifhed ; and I be-
* lieve your late Declaration will much glad their
* Spirits ; for nothing was more dreadful to them,
* than a Fear to be over-run with fanatic Notions.
' I humbly recommend them to your Affection
' and Efteem, and defire the intended A6t of Union
' may be profecuted, and their Taxes made propor-
* tionable to thofe in England, for which I am en-
* gaged, by Promife, to be an humble Suitor to you.
* And truly, Sir, I muft afk Leave to entreat you to
* make a fpeedy Provifion for their Civil Govern-
' ment, of which they have been deftitute near a
* Year, to the Ruin of many Families : And ex-
* cept Commiffioners for Management of the Go-
« vernment, and Judges to fit in Courts of Judica-
* ture, be fpeedily appointed, that Country will be
c very miferable. I directed Mr. Gumble lately to
c prefent to you fome Names, both of Commiffion-
* ers and Judges : But by reafon of your great Af-
* fairs, he was not required to deliver them in Wri-
* ting to you ; but I now humbly prefent them to
* your Confideration.'
Of E N G L A N D. 91
On the yth a Bill was pafled, intituled, An ad- Inter-reguum.
ditional Aft for Sequejirations, and ordered to be l659-
printed and publifhed. Ordered, alfo, ' That the ^ ~*~~ '^
Houfe take into Consideration the Cafes of the
Members of Parliament, againft whom fome Mat-
ters are objected, on the loth Inftant, nothing to
intervene : And that Sir John Norcott^ Sir Coplejlon
Bampfield, Sir William Courtney ^ Sir Richard 'Temple ,
and Mr. Henry CheJIer, be fent for in fafe Cuftody
by the Serjeant at Arms attending the Parliament.*
February 8. Mr. Love* from the Co.uncil of State,
informed the Houfe, That Col. Lambert either is,
or lately was, fecretly in London ; and that it was
the Council's Opinion he ftiould be fummoned to
appear before them, and give good Security to do
nothing to the Prejudice of the Commonwealth,
afterwards to retire to Holmby, and not to remove
from thence without Order from the Parliament ;
which was agreed to, and a Summons ordered to
be drawn up accordingly. Lieutenant-General
Ludlow to give an Account to the Parliament of the
Affairs in Ireland on that Day Se'nnight.
February 9. Mr. Scott gave an Account to the
Parliament of fome Refolutions taken by the Coun-
cil of State, in relation to the City of London, and
the Reafons thereof ; which Refolutions were read
as follows :
' That Commiffioners for the Government of the
Army do appoint Forces to be and continue in the
City of London^ for preferving the Peace thereof,
and of the Commonwealth, and for reducing the
City to the Obedience of the Parliament :
' That it be referred to the faid Commiffioners to
confider and agree of the Time and Manner of put-
ting the faid Order in Execution :
' That the faid Commiffioners do take Order,
That the Pofts and Chains in the City of London be
taken away, the Gates of the City unhinged, and
the Portcullices thereof wedged in ; and that they
caufe it to be done accordingly ; and fuch as fhall
make Refiftance to oppofe them by Force :
'That
gz The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnuni. ' That tne CommifEoners for the Government of
* 1659. ' the Army have Power to apprehend and feize any of
t— -v— ^ the Nine late Officers, who were ordered by the Par-
Ftbruary. liament to leave this Town ; or any other dangerous
Perfons, who have been in Arms againft the Parlia-
ment and Commonwealth :
* That the Perfons hereafter named be forthwith
feized and apprehended, viz. Mr. Vincent, Mer-
chant in BiJhopgate-Jlreet ; Thomas Brown, Grocer
in Wood-Jlreet ; Daniel Spencer, in Friday-Jlreet ;
Lawrence Bromfeild and Thomas Fryar, in Tower-
fir eet ; Major Chamberlayne ; Richard Forde, in
teething-lane ; Major Cox, at the Swan in Dow-
gate ; Alderman Bludworth ; Mr. Penning, in Fen-
church-Jlreet ; and Lieut. Col. Jackfon : And that
the Commiffioners for Government of the Army do
take Order that the fame be done accordingly.'
The fame Day a Letter was received from Ge-
neral Monke, which was read as follows :
To the Right Honourable WILLIAM LENTHALL,
Speaker to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of
England at Weftminfter:
Right Honourable, Guildhall, Feb. 9, 1659.
His Letter from* TN Qbedience to the Commands received from
the City to the t I the Council laft Night, I marched with your
* Forces into the City this Morning, and have fe-
* cured all the Perfons except two, ordered to be fe-
* cured, which two were not to be found : The
* Pofts and Chains I have given Orders to be taken
* away, but have hitherto forborne the taking down
* of the Gates and Portcullices, becaufe it will, in
* all Likelihood, exafperate the City ; and I have
' good Ground of Hopes from them that they will
* levy the AfTefs ; they defiring only firft to meet in
4 Common Council, which they intend to do To-
c morrow Morning. It feems probable to me, that
4 they will yield Obedience to your Commands, and
4 be brought to a friendly Compliance with you ;
'for
Of E N G L A N D. 93
s for which Reafon I have fufpended the Execution Inter-regnuw.
* of your Commands touching the Gates and Port- ^59* t
* cullices, till I know your further Pleafure therein; FT'~
« which I defire I may by this Bearer : I (hall only
< defire that (fo your Commands may be anfwered
' with due Obedience) fuch Tendernefs may be ufed
* towards them, as may gain their Affections : They
* defired the Reftoration of thofe Members of their
* Common Council that are fecured ; which Defires
* of theirs I (hall only commend to your grave Con-
* fideration, to do therein as you (hall think moft
« expedient ; and, in Attendance upon your further
* Commands, remain
Tour maft bumble and obedient Servant,
GEORGE MONKE.
P. S. c I (hall become an humble Suiter to you,
6 that you will be pleafed to haften your Qualifica-
* tions, that the Writs may be fent out j I can allure
6 you it will tend much to the Peace of the Country,
6 and fatisfy many honeft Men.'
Then it was refolved, * That the Anfwer to this
Letter be, To fend to General Monke the former
Refolutions of the Houfe, That the Gates of the
City of London^ and the Portcullices thereof, be
forthwith deftroyed ; and that he be ordered to put
the faid Votes in Execution.' Mr. Scott , and Mr.
Puty, jun. to carry this Meflage to the General.
Sir Arthur Hafilrlgge reported from the Council of
State the Opinion of the faid Council, That the
Houfe do take into Confideration the prefent Con-
ftitution of the Common Council of the City of
London: And, after fome Debate, it was voted,
* That the prefent Common Council for the City of
London^ elected for this Year, be difcontinued, and
are hereby declared null and void/ The Lord
Mayor of London to have Notice of this ; himfelf
commended by the Houfe for his difcreet Carriage;
and a large Committee was appointed to bring in an
Act
94 The Parliamentary HISTORY
jater-regnum. A& for the Choice of another Common Council,
1659.' with fuch Qualifications as the Parliament Ibould
*• — ^~*J think fit.
February. Qn tke other Hand, and on the fame Day, the
Houfe being informed that fome Petitioners were at
the Door, they were called in ; and, being come to
the Bar, the famous Mr. Praife-God Barebone, in
the Name of the reft, addrefling him felt to the
Speaker, faid, We are come to wait upon this Ho-
nourable Houfe with a Petition from fuch as are
Lovers of the Good Old Caufe. The Petitioners
are fuch as have adhered to this Parliament, and
fuch as are Lovers of Juftice, Righteoufnefs, Free-
dom, and Lovers of a Commonwealth, accounting
it the beft Government. There are many Subicrip-
tions, I may fay Thoufands, and in their Names I
do humbly prefent it to you ; and thereupon pie-
fented the Petition; who being withdrawn, the Pe-
tition was read, and was as folio weth :
To the PARLIAMENT of the COMMONWEALTH of
ENGLAND,
The REPRESENTATION and ADDRESS of the well-
ajfeSiedPerfons Inhabitants cftbe Cities of London
and Weftminfter, and Places adjacent, being faith-
ful and confront Adherers to this Parliament, who
are refolved, by the Ajfiftance of Almighty God, to
Jland by, affert, and maintain their Authority,
againft all Oppofers, notwithstanding the prefent
Confidence and bold Attempts of the Promoters of
Regal Intereft, by the declared Enemies of their
Caufe and Authority,
An Ad.hefs to ' "\ T 7*Hereas the Good Old Caufe was for Civil
them from the c VV a°d Chriftian Liberty, againft Oppreilion
Sectaries in the « an(j Perfection : The Oppreflbrs and Perfecutors
6 were, chiefly, the King, his Lords and Clergy, and
' their Adherents ; who, to effect their Defigns,
c raifed War againft the Parliament.
* Whereupon the Parliament, in Defence of Civil
« and Chriftian Liberty, call the Opprefled and Per-
« fecuted to their Aid ; by whofe Afliftance the
« Op-
cy* ENGLAND. 95
6 Oppreflbrs and Perfecutors have been fubdued, Intw-regnumi
' Kingfhip and Peerage abolifhed, and Perfecution l659-
* check' d ; by which the Number of confcientious FT* -^
' Friends to the Parliament have been fo exceed-
e ingly increafed, that they are now, by God's Af-
* fiftance, in a far more able Capacity of keeping
* down their Enemies, than they were in thofe
* Times when they fubdued them.
< Neverthelefs, fo watchful hath the reftlefs Ene-
c my been to make Advantage, that what, Time
* after Time, he hath loft in the Field, he hath en-
« deavoured to regain even in the Parliament's
' Council; where, becaufe they had not the Face
4 openly to bring in the King, with the former
' Oppreflions and Perfecutions, they fhrouded and
« veiled themfelves, one while under a Perfonal
e Treaty, another while under a Cloak of Zeal
* againft Blafphemy and Herefy, their Endeavours
* being to bring in the King upon any Terms ; to
c cherifh the perfecuting Party, and to brow-beat
< their moft confcientious Oppofers.
' Upon which Pretences, neverthelefs, they have,
* through Tract of Time and the Unfettlednefs of
« Government, prevailed fo far as, under the Notion
* of a moderate Party, to get the fubtilleft of their
* Friends into many Places of Truft and Command,
* both Civil and Military ; through whofe Counte-
* nance and Encouragement, albeit the Parliament,
* ilpon good Grounds, voted the Government by
* Kings and Lords ufelefs, burdenfome, and dan-
* gerous, and declare very largely for Liberty of
« Confcience ; yet of late a general Boldnefs hath
* been taken to plead a NeceiTity of returning to the
c Government of King and Lords, a taking in of
* the King's Son ; or, which is all one, for a Re-
* turn of the juftly-fecluded Members, or a Free
* Parliament, without due Qualifications ; whereby
e the Good Old Caufe of Liberty and Freedom (fo
c long contended for againft Regal Intereft, with the
e Expence of much Blood and Treafure) and the
* Aflertors thereof, will be proftituted to fatisfy the
* Lufts of the Enemies of the Commonwealth ;
' wherein
96 7&> Parlkunmtnry HIST&KY
loter-regnum. c wherein they have prevailed fo far, that, unlefs all
l6S9- « confcientious Perfons in Parliament, Army, Navyj
*T?V~<"""' ' and Commonwealth, do fpeedily unite and watch-'
tuary* « fully look about them, as the Sword will certainly *
* though fecretly and filently, be ftolen out of their
* Hands j fo alfo will they find all Civil Authority
« fall fuddenly into the Hands of their enraged Ene-
« mies, and a Return of all thofe Violences, Op-
* preffions, and Perfections, which have coft fo
* much Blood and Treafure to extirpate.
* The ferious Apprehenfions whereof hath ftirred
* up your cordial Friends to defire you to ufe all pof-
* fible Endeavours to prevent the Commonwealth's
' Adverfaries in this their moft dangerous Strata-
' gem ; and, as the moft effectual Means thereunto*
* we pray,
1. « That you will admit no Perfon or Perfons to
* fit or vote in this, or any future Parliament, or
* Council of State, or to be in any Office or Judi-
* catory, or any public Truft in the Common-
* wealth, or Command in the Army, Navy, or Gar-
* rifons, or to be a public Preacher to the People at
* Sea or Land, or any Inftruclor of Youth, except
' fuch only as {hall abjure, or, by folemn Engage-
' ment, renounce, the pretended Title or Titles of
* Charles Stuart, and the whole Line of the late King
' James; and of every other Perfon, as a Single
* Perfon, pretending, or which {hall pretend, to the
* Crown or Government of thefe Nations of Eng-
' land, Scotland, and Ireland, or any of them, and
' the Dominions and Territories belonging to them,
* or any of them ; or any other Single Perfon,
* Kingfliip, Peerage, or any Power co-ordinate
* with the People's Reprefentatiyes in Parliament :
* And all coercive Power in Matter of Religion,
* according to a Vote of a Grand Committee of this
' Parliament of the nth of September, 1659.
2. * We further pray that it may be enacled,
* That whofoever fhall move, offer, or propound in
* Parliament, Council, or any other Court or public
' Meeting, any Matter or Thing, in order to the
* introducing of Charles Stuart, or any of that Fa-
« roily
Of E N G L A N D. 97
€ mily as aforefaid, or any other Single Perfon, jnter-regn
* Houfe of Lords, coercive Power in Matters of 1659.
' Religion, or any Power co-ordinate with the
' People's Reprefentatives in Parliament, may be Fcbrun
* deemed and adjudged guilty of High Treafon, and
* may fuffer the Pains and Penalties thereof: And
4 that whofoever (hall, in Parliament, Council, or
' any other public Court or Meeting, move for or
* propoie the Revocation of this Law, when by you
' enacted, may be deemed and judged guilty of
* High Treafon, and fuffer the Pains and Penalties
« thereof.
' In the Profecution whereof we fhall ftand by you
* with our Eftates and Lives, to aflert and maintain
' your Authority againft all Oppofitions whatfoever,
' notwithftanding the prefent Confidence and bold
* Attempts of yours and our Enemies.
Signed ly, &cS
Then it was refolved, * That the Petitioners have
the Thanks of the Houie for the Expreflion of their
good Affections to the Parliament.'
The Petitioners being again call'd in, Mr. Speaker
gave them this Anfwer :
Gentlemen^ ' The Houfe have read your Petition,
and they do find that you have been fuch as have
conftantly borne them good Affections, and that
your Affections are the fame ftill ; and, for the
ExprefHons of your good Affections, the Houfe
hath commanded me to give you Thanks, and, in
their Names, I do give you Thanks accordingly/
February 10. Ten Pounds a Day ordered by the
Houfe to be granted and allowed to General George
Monke, to commence from his coming into England
out of Scotland, to continue till this Parliament take
further Order. Alfo all the Forces, both Horfe and
Foot, now in Town, were ordered a Month's Pay;
the Commiffioners of the Army to take Care for the
Payment thereof.
VQL, XXII. G February
98 1%e Parliamentary HISTORY
Intcr-regnum. February II. A Letter from Gen. Monte, and
j659- the Officers under his Command, dated from White*
^r""^'""— ' batt9 February II, 1659, was read as follows:
Mr. Speaker,
Another Letter « T T TE cannot but with Thankfulnefs acknow-
JromGen.Afarirc yy j d the won(jerful Goodnefs of God to
and his Army to '. ° „ r\- r i.
the Parliament. ' you, in your Return to the Difcharge of your re-
* maining Truftj and your Forces under our Com-
' rnands (after fome Difficulties) in bringing of us
' by a tedious March in fuch Safety to this Place, to
t wait upon you in aflerting the Freedoms of our
* native Country: And being here (as we have to
' our utmoft Hazard and Power been inilru mental
* in your Return) fo we (hall be ftill ready to purfue
* your Commands fo far as poffible we may.
' To evidence which, we have obferved and ex-
* ecuted your late Orders in relation to the Chains,
* Pofts, and Gates of the City ; which was fome-
' thing grievous to us, and to the Officers and Sol-
* diers under our Commands ; and that becaufe we
' do not remember any fuch Thing that was a£ed
* upon this City in all thefe Wars; and we fear
* that many fober People are much grieved at it, and
* apprehend further Force to be offered to them,
* while they feem principally to defire the fpeedy fil-
* ling up of the Houfe, which you have declared for,
* as well as we have exprefled our juft Defires of;
* and are apt to doubt, left what we have done may
* be fo far from anfwering the expected End, as that
< it may increafe the Difcompofure of Men's Spirits
* in the Nation.
« Upon this Occafion, it comes frefli into our
« Minds, that when, by the Treachery of fome Of-
* ficers of the Army, you were interrupted, we de-
* clared to the World, That the Ground of our UK-
« der taking was not only your Return to your Trufl^
* but alfo the Vindication of the Liberties of the
* People, and the Preferuation of the Right of our
* Country, the Protection and Encouragement of the
« Godly and Faithful therein, as the EJlablijbment of
* the Peace of thefe Nations ; which Declarations
wade
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* made before the Lord, Angels, and Men, in the later-regnuaj.
' Day of our Extremity, we (as we expeft the Blef- l659-
4 fing of the Lord upon cur future Undertakings) Vtr7v*"1^
4 cannot but ftill own and ftand by.
' We find that the aflerting of the juft Liberties
' of the People, is that which the Generality of the
* Nation is much in Expectation of; and that o»a»
* ny fober People, together with ourfelves, are un-
* der Fears, Jeft this great Price that God hath put
' into your and our Hands, as your Servants, fljould
4 not be improved, but that we ibaJJ rim into Con-
* fufion again.
* Therefore we humbly crave Leave to prefenc
* before you fome Grounds of our Fears : We are
* afraid that the late wonderful and unparalleled
* Deliverance, is not fo publickly and folemnly ac-
* Jcnowledged as it might be, that the Lord, who
* wrought fo flupenduoufly, may have the GJory of
* all : We are troubled that fome, as yet, do fit in the
* Houfe, who are impeached of Treafon : We can-
* not but obferve that divers Members «f your Houfe
* (who, contrary to their Truft, a&ed in that iJJe-
* gal and tyrannical Committee of Safety) are not
4 actually difabled from fitting there ; notwitbftand-
* ing Col. Lambert hath only the Vote of Indemnity
' to fecure him from as high Crimes as have been
* committed in this Nation, and is not obedient to
' your Orders, yet he feemeth to be winked at.
' We underftand that Sir Htnry Vane, upon bare
* Pretence, is permitted to ftay about the City, to
* the great Diflatisfaclion of your beft Friends j that
4 there are dangerous Confutations, and that of
* thofe who had a chief Hand in your late Interrup-
* tion, and the hazarding of the whole Nations,
4 contrary to our Expectation.
* We find continued in the Army fome Perfons
4 6/ dangerous Principles, and fuch who were active
4 enough in the late Defection.
* Though we are far from wifhing the Ruin cf
' any, yet we could defire that your fignal Jndul-
* gence to late notorious Offenders, did meet with
' that candid Reception from them, as to be fo much
G 2 *the
loo *!7j£ Parliamentary HISTORY
fnter-regnum. ' the more ingenuous in their profefTed Repentance :
1659'. < But we obferve that many of them do feek to
*""" "V"*— ' « juftify themfelves, and are not without their Agents
°ary* * in Print to palliate their foul Enormities ; which
c maketh us yet to fufpecl:, that we are in fome
s Danger of returning into the late Diftempers, that
* you and the Nation are but newly delivered from.
" ' We are not ignorant, that there are thofe who
* lately ftruck at the Root of Englifn Parliaments, in
* Practice and Defign, thereby having inflamed the
fr Nation, and given great Advantage to the com-
* mon Enemy ; yet they are not without a ftrange
* Confidence to precipitate Men into a Belief, that
* they are- not the only Perfons againft the one, and
4 for the other.
• ' With Grief of Heart we do remember, and
* would lament over the too-palpable Breach of
* Engagements in this Nation ; therefore we mould
* think it a Duty rather to mourn over the fame,
*• than to promote any new Oath to be taken at this
* Time. Yet we perceive that there is a Defign to
* provoke the Parliament to enforce an Oath upon
f the Nation, and to take Notice that, amongft
*" others, there are fome, who are moft forward to
* promote the faid Defign, who have made the lead
' (if any) Confcience in keeping Engagements al-
' ready taken.
« Here we muft not filence our deep Refentment
* of a bold Petition, and of dangerous Confequence,
« which was lately prefented to you, the Confe-
* quence whereof (if you Ihould anfwer their De-
' fires) would be to exclude many of the moft con-
* fcientious and fober Sort of Men from ferving
« under you in Civil and Military Employments,
' who have and would prove themfelves moft faith -
* ful, and a Door would be opened in Defign to
« retrieve the Intereft of thofe who have, by the juft
' Hand of our gracious God, made themfelves Co
* apparently obnoxious.
4 Moreover (which is not the leaft Part of the
* Venom of that Petition) we clearly fee the fame
* Spirit, which of late would have putl'd away the
•ftr
Of E N G L A N D. jpi
C (ty you declared juft) Maintenance from Minifters, Inter-regnwnr
<• would now provoke you by an Oath to endanger l659-
4 the forcing away of many of the moft Godly from.
4 their Maintenance.
4 In urging our Fears from the Premifes that
* concerns fome of different Principles from us, we
* would not be thought (as we do not) to defjgn,.
'any thing that may incur the.Cenfure of unjuffc
' Rigidity.
* We freely profefs our Defires, that Tendernefs
' of Confcience may have its full juft Liberty, but
4 we cannot, in Judgment, account that Tender-
c nefs of Confcience which will not fcruple at Trea-.
* chery itfelf, or any Unrighteoufnefs to carry oru
' corrupt Defigns.
4 Having prefented you^with our Fears, we fliarL
4 add our Refolutions, That, by the Help of God,.-
6 we (hall ftand by you in the Purfuance of what we >
' have declared for, and therefore do make this hum- >
4 ble Requeft to you : We could defire that, whilft
6 you fit, your utmoft Endeavours may be to mani-
' feft your affedlionate Defires for the public Good .-.
' of thefe Nations : Our further Defire is, That
4 thofe Regiments under your Confideration (whofe*
c Officers are not named) may be fpeedily pafs'd. 5
4 And in regard we find, that the grand Caufe of.
c the prefent Heats and Diffatisfa&ions in the Na-..
' tion is, becaufe they are not fully reprefented hi.
' Parliament ; and feeing no other probable Expe-..
* dient whereby to keep the Nation in Peace, than .
' by filling up your Number ; we muft therefore
* make this our main Defire, upon which we can-
4 not but infift, That you would proceed to iflue
' forth Writs in order to Elections ; for the better
' efFecling whereof we entreat, that you would con-.
4 elude upon due and full Qualifications, that not
4 only thofe who have been actually in Arms againft
* the Parliament may be excluded, but alfo fuch,
* who, in the late Wars betwixt King and Parlia-.
4 ment, have declared their Difaffedion to the Par- ,
6 liament. And becaufe the diftra&ed Condition of
G 3 this:
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Inter. wpiajD. ' this Nation is, at this Hour, fo evident and pref»
1659. * £mg, we are conftrained, for the juft Maintenance
*-_T* ^ ' of your Authority, and the Satisfaction of all true
raary. 4 £ngi,Jhmen, earneftly to defire, that all the Writs
« may be iffued forth by Friday next, returnable at
« the ufuaJ and legal Time ; for we think it conve-
* nient to acquaint you, that, to pacify the Minds of
* this great City, in the Profecution of your late
c Command, the Chief of us did give an Affurance
* thereof.
* And we muft not forget to remember you, that
* the Time haftens wherein you have declared your
« intended Diffolution ; which the People and our*
6 felves defire you would be punctual in.
' Hereby the Sufpicion of your Perpetuation will
c be taken away, and the People will have AiTurance
* that they (hall have a Succefiion of Parliaments of
* their own Election ; which is the undoubted Right
* of the Englijh Nation.
* You have promifed and declared no lefs ; both
* the People and your Armies do live in the Hope
* and Expectation of it.
c That we may the better wait for your full and
* free Concurrence to thefe juft Defires on the Na-
* tion's Behalf, upon mature Deliberation we have
c thought it our Duty as to Continue the ufual
* Guards for the Safety of your fitting, fo for the pre-
* ient to draw the reft of the Forces under our Com-
* mand into the City, that we may have the better
* Opportunity to compofe Spirits, and beget a good
* Underftznding in that great City, formerly re-
c nowned for their refoJute adhering to Parh'amen-
* tarv Authority ; and we hope that the fame Spirit
* will be found ftill to breathe amongft the beft,
« moft considerable, and interefted Perfons there.
4 This A&ion of ours, as we hope it will receive
c your favourable Interpretation, fo we do believe it
« will, thro' the Blefling of God, be of good Ufe
* for the prefent Peace and future Settlement of
c thefe Nations.
* Thefe are our Thoughts which we communi-
* cated to you, in the Names of ourfelves, and the
« Officers
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, \
N,
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c Officers and Soldiers under our Commands. We inter-regnum.
Tour Honour's moft humble Servants^ v^—v— ^J
GEORGE MONKE. febiuary'
TRO. RANDERS, THO. READ,
LEON. LIDCOT, RA. KNIGHT
Jo. CLOBERY, DAN. REDMAN
Jo. HUBLETHORNE,
ETHELBERT MORGAN, Lieutenant-Colonel^
NATHAN. BARTON, THO. PRYME, ~)
THO. JOHNSON, FRA. NICHOLS, ^Majors.
JER. SMITH, PET. BANISTER, 3
Upon the reading of this Letter the Honfe refol-
ved, ' That the Thanks of this Houfe be given unto
Gen. Monke for his faithful Service in fecuring the
City ; and that as to filling up of the Houfe, the
Parliament were upon the Qualifications before the
Deceit of the faid Letter j and the fame will be
difpatch'd in due Time.'
The Houfe met again in the Afternoon of this
Day, and firft ordered Candles to be brought in ;
then a Queftion being propofed, That the Parlia-
ment do now proceed in fettling the Commiffion-
ers for Government of the Army ; and the Que-
ftion being put, That this Queftion be now put,
the Houfe divided, and it was carried in the Affir-
mative, 35 againft 16 ; Sir Arthur Haftlrigge and
Col. Martin Tellers for the Yeas, and Mr. Raleigh
with Col. Lenthall for the Noes. The main Que-
ftion was carried without any Divifion ; and then
the Houfe proceeded in fettling the Government of
the Army by Commiffioners. The Houfe, after
fome Debate, agreed. That the Number of thefe
Commiffioners (hould be five j of which General
Monke, Sir Arthur Hafilrigge, Col. Morley, and
Col. Walton were to be four of them ; but trie Qu«-
ftion being propofed, That Sir Anthony AJhley Cooper
be another of thefe Commiffioners, the Houfe di-
vided again, when it went in the Negative, 30
againft 15, and Col. Matthew Alured was voted in
his
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Jnter-regnum. his.room. It was then propofed, That the £>uo-
l6S9- rum of thefe Commiflioners ihould be three, which
reed to : But another Queftion being put,
en. Mauke fhould be one of thefe three, it
pafled in the Negative without any Divifion. Re-
folved, alfo, That the Time for Continuance of the
Powers of the Commiflioners fhould be during the
Pleafure of Parliament ; and that the Word Ireland
be added after the Word Scotland in the A<St. Lajlly^
the Act for conftituting Commiflioners, &c. fo
amended, being put to the Queftion, pafled, and
Was ordered to be forthwith printed and publifhed.
We have now brought the Journals of this Par-
liament to a Crifis, not to be pafled over without
a clearer Explanation of thefe Events than can be
expected from thofe Authorities which we have
hitherto given in this Month, without any Annota-
tions upon them. But being come now, as we fay,
to a Period, when the General pulled off his Puri--
tanical Mafk, and declared openly for a Free Par-
liament, which the univerfal Turn of the Times
made very apparent, was.no lefs than declaring for
the King ; it is neceflary to confult the contempo-
rary Writers, in order to trace out every Step which
lead to this almoft-miraculcus Revolution. Amongft
thefe Authors, Dr. Prife^ whom we have fo often
quoted before, may be very well fuppofed the molt
particular ; fince, as Chaplain and Confident to the
General, he faw all the Turns and Windings that
brought on this great Event. We fhall purfuc
this Reverend Writer, therefore, from where we left
him laft, with, his Maftcr hearing Hugh Peters cant
a.t tlatfieldy and give an Abftract from him of their
IVIarch mto ftfflffet and all the Confequences, up
to our prefent Period in the Journals.
Contemporary Tne Dodor tefls us,^< That, oh. the fecond of
Hiftcrians on Felruaryy the General moved with an eafy March
thd"e Timns' toBarnet, where his troublefome Companions, Scott
frici. ' w&fy.binfon, .left, him j,..fp that here the General
had npije in his Qjjarters but ,his own Domeftics.
Much B.ufmqfs was nqw difpatched _; and Orders.
given
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given to the Soldiery to demean themfelves civilly, Inter-regpum.
and pay for their Quarters when they came to Lon-
dfotf, the General's Money which he had brought
from Scotland with him ftill holding out. That the
Night before Scott left them, he came to the Gene-
ral in a dreadful Alarm, feemingly, and told him
he had receiv'd Notice, That the Forces who were
to march out of 'London had mutinied, and it was to
be feared they would join with the 'Prentices there,
and declare for a Free Parliament. He therefore
defired, or rather required, the General to marcft
his Troops immediately into London to 'prevent them.
To which the General coolly nnfwered, / zvill un-
dertake for this Night's Dijlurbdnce^ and be in earfy
enough in the Morning to prevent any Mi f chief. This
was looked upon as an Artifice of S'cott's, if 'he
could have drawn on the (3enefalx in order to mix
the Soldiers 'of both Armies together, 'that fhe$
rtight be the Ids athis Devotiori:^^'^^- ™
The next Day they marched^ towards London*,
and at High'gate the General" cfrew up all his Forces^
confiding only of 5800 Men, Horfe and Foot-;
They entered the Town at Grafs- Inn-Lane ^ ancL
in their March 'towards Whitehall, met the Speaker
in the Stran'd^4 'coming from the'Ffbtife in his Stat^
Coach. ThcGeneral alighted, aii'd complimented^
in his Soldier's Manner, this Representative of So-'
vereignty ; he aftef\Yards 'W6nt to IVhitehall^ ghd
had the Prince's Lodgings for his own'Apartments^
the reft of his Family were difpofed of in that Palace.
This happened on a Saturday, February . ' v'3.,'^an<I
they refted on Sunday very quietlj^/
'-Our Author next proceeds to tell, us, « That iu
was on Monday tlie General faw the Face of h\\
Mafters in the Houfe, received folemn Thank'?
from them -by their Speaker,, and returned his "ta
them ; but becaufe he took updn him to mirtd tlierh
of fome Things which he judgdcl were for the pubKc
Good, it was' not wellreiifhed by iome, and parti-
cularly by Scott and Robin/an; they reflecting up-
on' Him as if he fought to impofe his own Senfe of
Things
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IflteMcgnum, Things upon the Houfe j yet this was pafs'd over,
|659« they being content to impute it to his Affe&ion for
VTTV^*' their Service, rather than to any Diftafte he had of
mary. ^.^ p^gjg^j. Thus, having been firft nomi-
nated one of their new-molded Council of State, he
was invited to take his Place among them : But
then every Counfellor of State was, by Order of
Parliament, to renounce the Title and Pretences of
Charles Stuart^ and all the Defcendants of the Li-
neage of King James ; nay, and of all other Single
Perfons who ihould pretend to the Government of
thefe Nations. All this was to be done too by the
Solemnity of an Oath.
' This had been propounded to him before, by
thofe who had argued to this £ffe&, for the Necef-
lity of it : That it was high Time for them to dif-
criminate their own Party, that at laft they might
come to know whom they could truft ; it being
now found that there had been a great Defection,
even among themfelves. The General was not
Unprovided of an Anfwer, and fo craves Leave to
demur} adding, that he had not feen any Good
Come of their promiflary Oaths, thofe who took
rhem making no Scruple to break them. He in-
ftanced in the Covenant and Engagement ; and fug-
gefted that feven, befides himfelf, who were nomi-
nated to be of the Council of State, had not yet
abjured; befides, that he did not know how it
would relifh with his Army, who were very tender
in that Point. And, indeed, I knew fome of them,
who, tho' no Friends to Monarchy, yet had taken
up a Notion, that it was not lawful to'fwear againft
the Providence of God. But, that they fhould fee
that they had no Reafon to fufpedl him or his Ar-
my, he defired that they would make Trial of his
and their Fidelity and Obedience to them ; and if
they found that he either difobeyed or difputed their
Orders, he was then in their Power ; for he brought
not an Army with him to make them jealous of
him ; having fent back a great Part of it, after he
underftood to they were eftablifhed in their Power.
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Cy ENGLAND 107
« Hitherto his A&ions had not been fuch as, in
the Jeaft Degree, to make the Parliament or Coun-
cil of State dirtruftful of him ; nay, they were ra-
thcr fuch as ought to have produced a good Opinion
of his Conftancy to them, not only by his fending a
great Part of his Army back, after they were refto-
red, but alfo by contending fo eagerly for them }
for when a Treaty between both Armies was firft
propounded, and the Articles of it were debated in
Scotland^ it was with great Difficulty that he yielded
to the Calling of another Parliament ; and when he
did, he recommended this his Condefcenfion to his
Commiflioners, as the great Secret of their Truft,
charging them to try all Ways for an Accommoda-
tion, before that (hould be difcovered } nay, and
broke the Agreement too, as much for this Reafbn
as any other, and removed Col. Wilkes from hit
Command, becaufe he difclofed this Inftru&ion un-
neceflarily ; he refolutely adhering to the Parliament
of the Eleventh of Oftober^ and no other. Andk
indeed, no other could fo well have done his Bufi.-
nefe, for this was become odious to his People. But
Fears and Jealouties are Proteftations contra Faffum ;
to which, befides popular Expectations at home,
the King's Court abroad adminiftered Fuel : Fot
Adverfity will lay hold on a Bulrufh.
< At this Time a Gentleman (whofe Suffer-
ings were better known to me than I to him) cam®
to~me and told me, with great Secrecy, what Hopes
there were beyond Sea of Monke's March ; expref-
fing a Defire to gain fome from me, but I fent him
away difcontented. The General's March without
Orders might, at firft, reafonably create fome Diffi-
dence ; but it was foon authorized, and countenan-
ced by the coming of Orders, and CommifEoners,
from what we were obliged to call a Parliament*
* It was now the General's Bufinefs to overcome
Scott's Sufpicions of him, as knowing him to be
his Enemy, and to have plotted his Ruin. Scott^
rn our March, had very often complained of the
great Malignancy of the City of London, (for which
Che coming of its Commiffioners gave Occafiort
enough)
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Inter-regnum. enough) but the General would comfort him by
1659- hinting, that the Parliament needed not to fear any
t* "— v -^ Danger from thence, fo long as they had an Army
uary* by them: And it feems he had promifed him to take
down the Stomach of the City, if Need required.
The Neceffity at this Time was eminent; for now
theLord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council-
Men of London^ by a public Vote, declared, That
they would pay no more Taxes and Contributions,
till the Parliament was filled up with equal Repre-
lentatives of the People. Before this, only a few
popular Tumults gave the Government a Difturb-
ance ; but now the Authority of the whole City re-
belled againft the Men of Wtftndnfter ; and I may
fafely fay, that the Citizens the rather made Choice
of this Time, becaufe the General, only with his
Scots Army, was in their Suburbs, and at IVejimin-
Jler^ of whom they had entertained good Hopes,
from the Time that divers Citizens, of good Note,
had given the General Vifits at St. Albans and
Barnet : They knew too that many of the Offi-
cers had Relations and Friends among them ; nor
did any Citizens return from us with the ill News
of Defpair ; nay, fome of them ufed to carry more
Hopes back than they had Reafon for, their Af-
fedtion for their Country fupplying the Deficiency
of Promifes from us. Thus moft of them hoped
well, and none would defpair of Monke and his
Army.
' On Tug/day Night the General was detained at
the Council of State till paft Two in the Morning,
•which (he being no Member, as yet being no Ab-
jurer) created fome Sufpicions in his Friends and
Servants, as if the Council meant not well towards
him ; and by fome it was whifpered as if it was de-
figned that he {hould be fent to the Tower. Now,
to fpeak the Truth, the Council might, without
Reproach of Jealoufy upon their Wifdom, have fu-
fpe&ed that the City would not haVe thus boldly re-
monftrated, had not Monke given them fome fecret
Encouragement.
But
Of E N G L A N D, 109
* But his fuperlative Forefight of Things defeated Jnter-regnum.
the City, the Council of State, and his Friends and l659*
all ; for he accepted of Orders, and the next Day *~~ FT^~
executed them. He went into the City, and after
he had placed his main Guards for his own Security,
he diftributed the Remainder of his fmall Army to
their refpeclive Ports, charged them to pull down
the City Gates, break their Portcullices, and pluck
up their Foils and Chains ; himfelf in the mean
Time fending for, and imprifoning, the moft daring
and difaffe&ed Members of the Common Council,
purfuant to his Orders.
' It is God's Prerogative to change Times and
Seafons, and to fet up and pull down Kings and
Governments : And this was the real fatal Crifis
that fo foon changed the Face of Things, and made
the Revolution fo fwift. For never did Soldiers
with fo much Regret obey their General ; obeyed,
indeed, he was, but with Scorn to them who com-
manded their Commander. It was a pretty Medley
of Paflion when I faw them both merry and angry
at this odious Drudgery ; and a lively Pen that had
obferved and could exprefs their Humours, might
have made a Play of it. This was the Carriage of
the ordinary Soldiery ; but our Officers of Note ran-
wholly into Difcontent, and offered up their Com-
miffions to the General : But he was dark, and
chewed his Tobacco, and I took Notice that he
was more angry at the Spies that were about him,
(as Col. Alured and others) than at the Work he
was doing. Hither came his amazed Friends, and
durft not fay a Word to him : But I was not orilfsu,
amazed, but inwardly repented of what I had faid
to him at York ; imagining that my Words, then,
were not only for his Safety, but for his Honour,
tiot to have the Game taken out of his Hands.
' But no Accident of War, (no not if we had
engaged into Blood againft Lambert) could have
more fully aflured his Army unto him ; for now the
Parliament was deteftable even to us their Reito-
rcrs. That this was his own Contrivance (and, if
fo, a Maftcr-piece. of Cunning).! have thefe Induce-
ments
1 1 o 1'be Parliatnentary HISTORY
, ments to believe : Scott folemnly told Col.
that Monke offered himfelf to him to do this odious
Action, and that the Council of State would not
put him upon it, had it not been for him, who af-
lured him that Monke would undertake it. Thus
much Scott alledged for himfelf to Wetbam, who
charged the Change of the Government upon this
Mifcarriage. Scott had little Reafon to diflemble,
you may be fure, when he faw his Day was loft,
and his Life too ; for he fat upon his Sovereign's.
That Scott thus excufed himfelf to fPetham, I will
name my Voucher, viz Dr. Barrow, (the Judge-
Advocate of his Majefty's Army and Guards) a
Gentleman who well deferved of the General for
his Prudence and Integrity, for he was highly fer-
viceable to him from his firft declaring againft the
Army, and fo continued. Nay, 1 foon after mo-
deftly alked the General, * How he was engaged to
undertake this deteftable Piece of Service ?' He mer-
rily anfwered me, This was a Trick you knew not ofy
and I do ajjure you that I could not have done my Bu»
Jinefs fo foon without it, and pojjibly not at all.
* So I confefied that his Wifdom out witted my
Expectations, for I thought he would at firft have
lodged his Colours within the Walls of London ;
yet, true it is, that it was eafy for him to forefee,
that the City, upon his coming to Town, would
run into Discontents ; for they looked upon him as
a Lover of his Country's Freedom, and therefore
judged that he would not endeavour to uphold a
Power that was not only ufurped, but contemptible
and ridiculous ; they taking it in a great Difdain,
that a bare Remnant of a Houfe of Commons, legally
diffolved, mould give Laws to their Fellow Subjects,
fupporting themfelves by an Army, the great Offi*
cers of which put them in and out, and out and in,
at their Pleafure. I knew too, that he would lay
hold of the firft Advantage againft the Men of
Wejiminjler ; and Advantages, befides this, could
not but be offered, for they longed to fall upon the
Sequeftration of all thofe Gentlemen who had been
in Booth's Confpiracy. Now the General could not,
•in
Of E N G L A N D. nt
in Honour, fee them perifh, becaufe himfelf was
concerned in it ; neither was he without his Sufpi-
cions, that fome could prove it againft him ; befide,
that his Power was not long liv'd, and he muft have Febr<JaiT'
foon found it fo, were it but from his Fellow Com-
iniiHoners for governing the Army, whofe Interefts
were bound up with that of the Parliament.
* On Friday, February the loth, the General re-
turned from the City to Whitehall^ and his Scots
Army to their Quarters in the Suburbs and Weft-
mln/ter. This fome Members of the Council of
State fignifi-d they were difpleafed at, faying, That
his Return was without their Orders. And, in
Truth, it was againft them j for he was to ftay
there till further Order, and they had more Work
for him there. Thus would the Parliament have
rewarded this City, for their Afiiftance againft the
late King !
' At this Time the Anabaptifts, and fuch like
Sectaries in and about the City, who were afraid of
Peace and a National Intereft, took Heart at the
pulling down of the City Gates, and fell to remon-
itrating to the Parliament, That none were fit to bear
any Office, Civil or Military, that would not abjure
Charles Stuart, and his Title and Family ». This
was underftood to have been the Artifice of fome
Abjurers in the Council of State, to win over Af-
ftftance to their narrow and almoft-defpifed Party :
And could they have gained the Point of encoura-
ging Petitioners of this Nature, I doubt not to fay-
but that the Council of State would have given a
Lift to the Parliament itfelf, as Traitors to their
Truft, becaufe they were fuch fqueamifti Rebels, as
not to abjure the Heirs of the Crown. By this
Means to have engrofTed the Sovereignty to thenv
felves, would have been no hard Matter, had but
Msnke been their Friend in Reality, as in Appear-
ance he was their Servant, and the Executioner of
their odious Orders.
« Thefe Sectaries moft grofly flattered the Parlia-
ment in their Petition, and renowned them for their
gjorious Adions } though thefe were the very Men
» See p. 94. who
Jrjtw-regnum,
1659.
February,
H2 The Parliamentary HISTORY
who, but a few Weeks before, had been of anothef
Temper, being Lambert's Confidents, and the Par-
liament's Enemies.
' It was further obferved by us, in this little
Time we had been in Town, that the Parliament
Jjegan to encourage thofe who .had appeared in the
Englijb .Army againft them. Ludlow fat in the
Houfe, tho' he had been accufed of Tre'afon by the
Jrifl) Officers ; and it was faid that iome of the
Houfe kept Correfpondence with Lambert himfelf.
"This our Officers looked upon as done in Diffidence
of them and their General, who had been their Re-
florers, and had approved thernfelves their faith-
ful Servants in the Day of Trial. Soldiers are not
ordinarily that crafty Kind of Men that can difTem-
ble Injuries ; and fome of them were fo juft to their
Country, as not to think it worth their Pay to uphold
only a few Men in an arbitrary Tyranny, contrary
to the Senfe of the whole Nation. Of this Sort the
boldeft came to the General, dutifully and freely to
reprefent to him the State of Things, and that fome
fpeedy Remedy was of Neceffity to be thought upon
and applied. The General was too wife to lofe
this Advantage ; but, however, feemed to require
Time to deliberate on it : But they earneftly re-
plied, That if fomething were not forthwith done,
to bear their Witnefs againft fuch Proceedings, he
would foon be loft, and they with him ; but he in
the firft Place, becaufe he had now more Enemies
in the Council of Sate and Parliament too, than he
dreamt of; for though he had executed his Orders
againft the City, and thereby rendered himfelf
odious to the free-born People, yet the Manner of
doing it was fuch, as made him fyfpe&ed by his
Talkmafters.
' The General yielded at length to their Fears
and Counfels, and the rather, for that he was aflu-
red of the Tower of London^ the Lieutenant of it
(Col. Morley) having before offered it him. This
the noble Colonel had done in the City, pitying the
Confternation of its Citizens, when he faw what
Work was doing, what Influence it would have
upon
Of ENGLAND. 113
upon the Country. In all Secrecy, therefore, it inter-regnurrt.
was debated, and foon agreed upon, that a Letter j659-
Ihould be fent to the Parliament the Day following; <T~~t^"""J
and late at Night Orders were iflued, That our ary>
principal Officers fhould meet early at the Gene-
ral's Lodgings the next Morning, and they came
accordingly : To whom the Occafion of their
convening was expounded by our Secretaries of the
Night, who had fat up, and penned the Letter to the
Parliament. Their Aflent to it was defired, the
General being prefent ; he fubfcribed it firft, and
they, in their Order, fet their Hands to it. The
Tenor of this Letter was very peremptory, viz.
That by the Friday following they fhould fend forth
Writs to fill up all the vacant Places in the Houfe ;
and, when that was done, fix a determinate Time
to their own fitting, and give Place to another Par-
liament.
* This now was a State of War between the
Scots Army and the Parliament. Heretofore, when
Cromwell and Lambert turned thefe few Members
of the Houfe of Commons out of their Place at
Weftminfter9 they did but refpite the Exercife of
their Power, and it was their good Chance to return
again to it; for their Servants, who fo ufurped upon
them, drove on the fame Intereft ftill with them-
felves, and ruled by the Force of an Army, which
protected the Lives and Fortunes of thefe Parlia-
ment-Men : Now all of them being equally guilty,
they were never queftioned for what they had done,
but enjoyed the Peace and Liberty of Subjects, even
when, by their own Indifcretion, and the reftlefs
Ambition of the Great Officers of the Army, they
loft the Sovereignty : Whereas this Letter now -
forced them to be their own Executioners within
their Walls of Empire; for to fill up the Houfe with
new-elected Members out of the Country, at a
Time when every Village was fo exafperated againft
them, in plain Englljb amounted to no lefs ; for
they were fure to be out-voted, and, confequently,
liable to be queftioned.
VOL. XXII. H « The
U4 %%e Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. c The General fent this Letter to the Houfe by
l6S9- two Colonels, Clobery and Lidcot, and, not flaying
VT*^"^^ for an Anfwer to it, puts himfelf at the Head of his
Army, marched into Finftury- Fields * and from
thence fends to the Lord Mayor of London, defi-
ring that Quarters might prefently be fet out for his
Men within the City. Our Quarter-Matters had
no Orders to intimate the Breach that was made
between our Army and the Parliament; and ib they
found the Lord Mayor of London fomewhat afto-
niflied at this MefTage ; but he foon after under-
jftood the End of his Coming; for fome of the Ci-
tizens were earlier informed of it. As foon as the
General left Whitehall^ I went into the City, and not
knowing where he would quarter that Night, I came
to the Three Tuns before Guildhall, where the Ge-
neral had quartered two Nights before. I entered
the Tavern with a Servant, and a Portmanteau, and
afked for a Room, which I had fcarce got into, but
Wine followed me as a Prefent from fome Citizens,
defiring Leave to drink their Morning's Draught
with me. I accepted of the Civility; but, in Requital
of their Wine and Company, was afked Wh at News,
and what might be the Meaning of my fo return-
ing hither : I freely told them that we were not now
the fame Men that we were two Days ago ; and
that this they fliould find before Night, to the full
Satisfaction of the Injuries done them. The good
Men were tranfported into Joy, and moft of them
left me and" their Wine, and ran to communicate
this hopeful News.
' A Citizen of good Quality, Mr. William Stan-
fy, ftaid longer, and invited me to his Houfe to
Dinner, and moft courteoufly lodged me there, du-
ring the General's Stay in the City; for it happened
not to be far from his Quarters. This I mention
out of a grateful Remembrance of his Hofphality.
* The General came late into the City, and
his Army later, flaying for the Lord Mayor's Re-
turn to his Meffengers for quartering his Men ~T
when they entered, they were welcomed as the Re-
ftorers of their Country's Freedom j Bells, Bor-
fires.
Of E N G L A N D.
fires, Wine, and feveral Large/Fes of Money a- interregnum,
mong our Soldiers, being the Atteftations of the »6S9-
Citizens Joy. This was Saturday, February n, *- 7^^*^
renowned for the Night of burning the Rump ; (for
thus the young Men, who were Haters of this
long-ufurped Power, called the Parliament) Butch-
ers had quick trading for their Rumps, and many
Cooks loft their Fees.
' The Parliament clofely debated upon the Let-
ter fent them ; and wifely diuembling the Infolency
of Monke and his Officers, in prefcribing Rules to
them, gave them Thanks for their joint Care with
them of the Commonwealth ; alluring them, over
and above, that they were confidering of Qualifi-
cations for the next Parliament. With this Mef-
fage came Scott and Robinfon, with fome others, that
Evening into the City to the General: Adding, that
his Return to Whitehall was required by the Coun-
cil of State, it being for their Safety ; and that if
he and his Army kept their old Quarters, they
would be better fatisfied with their Proceeding, be-
ing near them ; but if 'his Army continued in the
City, they were afraid, they faid, that it would be
debauched from its Obedience to the Parliament,
they looking upon the Citizens as Enemies to the
Government. The General gave them no other
Reply, but that, If the Parliament will do as they
are defired in my Letter, they need not fear but all
Things will go well.
* The Noife of Scott and Robinfori's coming to
the General fo alarmed the 'Prentices in the Streets,
that they were fearched for as ftri&ly as were the
Spies that came to Jericho. The General was now
at the Bull's Head Tavern in Cheapfide. The
Streets were thronged ; Mr. Gumble and I were in
a Coach, that was becalm'd in a Croud, coming
from Guildhall^ where the General had been to
expound the End of his coming : Now the 'Pren-
tices went, it feems, from Coach to Coach in Queft
of Scott and Robinfon ; and when they looked into
ours, they cried out, Here they are. Plenty of Dirt
was brought againft us in Shovels from the Kennel,
H 2 we
1 1 6 fThe Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. we defending ourfelves with the Curtains of th£
1659- Coach as well as we could, till the Miftake was
U-'-v*""-* over> which foon was by the Means of our Officers.
February. gu(. ^ voung Men's Fury was much longer liv'd ;
for, in roafting the Rump, it was fcarce cool till
Sunday Morning.
' There was now a Report that the Parliament
had taken away the General's Commiffion : And
there was fomething of Truth in it too ; for, upon
the Letter fent them, which fo much threatened
their very Being, they called for the Names of their
Commiffioners for governing of their Army, re-
trenched two of them, and conflituted only five,
of which Monke was one, and of which Number
three were a Quorum. But it being unhappily
moved, Whether Monke ftiould be of it, it was car-
ried in the Negative : So tho' his Commiffion was
not formally voted from him, (for that they durft
not do) yet virtually it was ; and Monke and Morley
were left to ftem the Tide againft H$filrigge9 Alu-
red, and Walton.
* The General that Night removed from Cheap-
fide^ after he had difpofed his Men into Quarters,
and took up his own at the Gtaff-Houff, where
there was one large Room fet apart for him to receive
the grateful Vifits of the Citizens, who had already
forgot their Yefterday's Injuries ; and having long
before this repented that their Treafure and their
Arms had been fuccefsfully employed againft their
Prince, and their Country, they now promifed them
to Monke, hoping for a better Iffue of both j and in
this he did not deceive them.'
Dr, Cumllt, Dr. Gumblt, our other Reverend Writer of
Monkis and his Officers' Actings in thefe Affairs,
tells us, « That, after they had done the late dirty
Work for the Parliament, and the General was re-
turned to Whitehall, a Conference was held, the
Refult of which was, That fome Method mud be
taken for immediate Recovery from this politic Dt-
ftemper. After which the General retired to reft,
but that four of his Officers fat up all Night in order
to
.Of ENGLAND. 117
to draw up, what the Doctor calls, a brifk and Inter-rcgnuns,
fmart Letter to be fent to the Houfe, and which was l659-
read and figned by the General the next Morning, ^^T^""4
with feveral other Officers who were convened for
that Purpofe ; and it was fent to the Parliament by
Col. Clobery and Col. Lldcot. Our Author re-
marks, That it was a refined Piece of Policy in the
General, to feem to be perfuaded in this, to what
he himfelf had contrived ; and before the Letter
could be read in the Houfe, he marches back with
his whole Forces into the City, and drew them up
in Finfliury-Fields* to the great Confternation of the
Citizens, who knew not yet what to expect from
this ftrange Conduct, a
A Copy of ibis Letter here mentioned, is already
given at p. 98.
But now, to fhift the Scene from the late-quoted
Reverend Authors, who fome Readers may think
were more inclined to write Panegyrics on their
Matter's Conduct in thefe Affairs than ftria Truth,
we {hall turn to their Oppofite, Ludlow, and learn
what this Memorialift and ftiff Republican has left
us concerning this Period : Which alfo we fhall give,
as near as poffible, in his own Words. Speaking of
the Scots Army's March up to Town, he adds,
6 In the mean Time Monke was come to Barnet,
and being expeaed at London the next Day, Orders Mr.
were iflued out for the old Regiments of the Army to
inarch from the Town ; which fo difgufted them, that
many refufed to march till their Arrears were paid.
This Mutiny began at Somerfet-Houfe^ where a whole
Regiment was quartered, who were joined by divers
Parties of the reft. The Cavaliers and Prefbyterians
of the City hoping to improve this Opportunity, in-
vited them to join with the City, as they term'd their
Party there, promifmg them their whole Arrears,
conftant Pay, and a prefent Gratuity, giving them
fome Money in Hand as an Earneft of the reft.
The Soldiers took their Money; but, withali, threat-
ened them, that, unlefs they departed immediately,
H 3 they
a Life of General Mtnkc, p, 2.44, ©V,
1 1 8 Tie Parliamentary Hi s T OR Y
Inter -regnum. they would fire upon them, declaring their Refolti-
1659. tion to continue faithful to the Parliament. Here-
*•— — v — — •* upon the Council of State, that they alfo might cut
uary* the Grafs from under their own Feet, fent Orders
to Monke to haften his March, and with all Dili-
gence to come to their Relief. Thefe Malecontents
were very numerous, amounting to more than 2000
Foot, and about the fame Number of Horfe were
ready to join with them. But no confiderable Per-
fon appearing at the Head of them, their new Offi-
cers, who laboured the whole Night to fatisfy them,
prevailed with them to march the next Morning,
upon Promife that their Arrears fhould be paid at
their next Quarters. The following Day Monke
marched to London at the Head of his Party, which,
for the moft Part, were quartered about Whitehall*
where Lodgings had been provided for him j and
immediately fome Members of Parliament were
lent to congratulate his Arrival. The fame Even-
ing I met Vice- Admiral Lawfon at Sir Henry Mild"
may's Lodgings at Whitehall, and knowing him to
be familiarly acquainted with Monke, I defired that
we might make him a Vifit together, which he
readily confented to. We found him alone in the
Prince's Lodgings; where, having congratulated the
Succefs of his Attempt to reftore the Parliament to
the Exercife of their Authority, I took the Freedom
to tell him, That, having an Opportunity put into
his Hands to free thefe Nations from the Danger of
being opprefled, as they had lately been, by the
Power of the Sword, I hoped he would improve it
to the public Advantage, by giving his Affiftance to
the Parliament, in fettling the Government upon fo
juft a Foundation, that it might be fupported for
the future by the Love and Affections of the People.
He anfwered, That as God had owned him in his
Work, fo he defired, that he alone might have the
Glory : That it was true Factions had been car-
ried on ; but that he was fully refolved to promote
the Intereft of a Commonwealth. Which Refo-
lution when I had commended, and encouraged him
3S well as I could to continue, he faid, We muft
live
Of E N G L A N D. 119
nd die for and with a Commonwealth. Then I inter-regnum.
told him, That I had met lately with one Mr. l6S9-
Courtney, who faid he was his Relation, and having L ~~¥~ — '
drank too much at the Inn where I lay in my Way
to London, boafted that his Coufin Monke would do
great Things for the King ; but that upon my ob-
jecting his public Declarations 'and Proteftations to
the contrary, he began to doubt, and faid, That his
Coufin being a Man of Honour, he feared he would
be as good as his Word. Tea (faid Monke) If
there were nothing in it but that, I mujl make good
my Word, and will too. I prefume (faid I) that the
dnjwer you have lately publijhed to your Countrymen's
Letter, hath given them all Satisfaction concerning
you. He replied, That he hoped it had. Thefe
and many other Proteftations of Zeal to the Com-
mon Caufe, with many Profeflions of Friend-
fhip to ourfelves, we received from him at that
Time ; wherewith Vice-Admiral Lawfon was fo
well fatisfied, that he faid to me, after we had
parted from him, That fince the Levite and the
Priejl had paffed by and would not help us, he ho-
ped we had found a Samaritan that would do it.
' The Parliament having Notice of Monkis Ar-
rival, fent a Meflage to him by Mr. Scott and Mr.
Robinfon, to defire his Attendance at their Houfe
the next Day ; whither being come, a Chair was
ordered for him, but he refufed to fit, contenting
himfelf to ftand behind it uncovered, laying his
Hand upon the Chair. The Speaker, as had been
ordered, gave him the Thanks of the Houfe for the
Service he had done, extolling him above all the
Worthies of former and latter Ages. To whofe
Rhetoric he anfwered, That as to what was done,
be defired God might have the Glory, in that he
had wrought Deliverance by fo weak an Inftrument.
After which he informed the Houfe, That, in his
March, many Applications had been made to him,
by all Sorts of Perfons, for a Free Parliament ; and
that he had acquainted them, That the End of his
March being to free the Parliament from the Power
of thofe who had impofed on them, he doubted not
they
120 7/fo Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. they would take all poflible Care of the Public
Good. Then he put them in Mind of their Refo-
Jution to fill up the Houfe, which, he faid, would
^^ much to the Satisfaaion of the Nation. He
defired that Fanatical Perfons (as he called them)
might be removed from Places of Truft, and under-
took to anfwer for the Fidelity of thofe who had
affumed the Power in Ireland; concluding with
Profeffions of the utmoft Zeal and Faithfulnefs to
their Service. Thus he gave the Parliament good
Words, for which they heaped their Favours upon
him, and voted iooo/. per Ann. to be fettled on
him. And that nothing might be wanting to com-
pleat this Scene, Monke's Wife took efpecial Care
to treat the Wives of the Members that came to
vifit her, running herfelf to fetch the Sweetmeats,
and filling out Wine for them, not forgetting to
talk mightily of Self-denial, and how much it was
upon her Hulband's Heart that the Government
might be fettled in the \Vay of a Commonwealth.
In the mean Time the fecluded Members had their
Meetings with thofe of the fame Faction in the
City ; and fome of thofe that fat in Parliament were
earneft Promoters of their Return to the Houfe, of
whom were Col. Lafcelles and Col. Richard Ingoldfoy^
who had been two of the King's Judges : But the
Perfon I moil wondered at was Col. Hutchinfon ;
who having exceeded moil of the Members of the
High Court of Juftice, in Zeal for putting the King
to Death, at this Time aded a very different Part,
preffing the Houfe, with an unbecoming Importu-
nity, to proceed againft Sir Henry Vane for not re-
moving into the Country according to their Order,
when it was well known he was fo much indifpofed
that he could not do it without the apparent Hazard
of his Life.
' Many Alarms were given to the Parliament, by
their faithful Friends, in printed Difcourfes, and
otherwife, .whereby they were put in Mind that
the Enemies Quarrel was not fo much againft
Perfons as Things ; and, as one termed it, not
againft Ludlow and Rich, but againft the Caufe it-
felf.
Of ENGLAND. * *i
felf. They were advifed to accept the Aflvftance of Inter- regnum.
their old Servants, and to encourage them in their l659-
Fidelity, as the only Means to preferve themfelves *— — v— — ^
and the Commonwealth from certain Ruin. But Fel)ruai7«
they were deaf to all (alutary Counfel, and refolved
to finiih the Work with the new Inftruments which
they had chofen. To this End they proceeded on
the Bill for filling up the Houfe ; which, by wife
Men, was thought a moft: dangerous Expedient in
that Conjuncture, unlefs Monke (hould prove more
honeft than they could believe him to be. The City
of London alfo took upon them, in their Common
Council, to receive Petitions from the adjacent
Counties, touching the Payment of Taxes, and
other public Affairs ; prefuming not only to call in
the Petitioners, and to give them Thanks for their
good Affe&ions, but alfo pafled a Vote that they
would pay no Taxes, but fuch as {hould be impofed
by a Free Parliament.
' The Council of State having received a particu-
lar Account of the Proceedings in the City, fent for
Monke to confalt with him concerning the beft
Means to put a Stop to thefe Diforders ; and fome
of them moving that the Common Council fhould
be forbidden to fit, fome few of the moft active
feized the Gates of the City taken down, the Port*-
cullices wedged, and the Pofls with their Chains
pulled up : Monke faid, That if they did no more,
that would ferve for nothing, becaufe the Damage
might be foon repaired. He added, That the Dif-
affe&ion of the City was fo great, that they would
never be quiet till fome of them were hanged ; and
that it was abfolutely neceflary, for the prefent, to
break in Pieces their Gates and Portcullices, to
burn their Ports, and to carry away their Chains to
the Tower; offering himfelf, if they would command
thefe Things to be done, to fee their Orders put in
Execution. Hereupon the Council ordered him to
march into the City with his Forces early the next
Morning, before the Occaiion of his coming among
them foould be known. Various Reports were
pub-
122 72* Parliamentary HISTORY
iater-regnum, publifhed touching the Defign of his March into the
*659- City, and many fufpe&ed that he had already decla-
\0~~\~* *J red for the King. But when the Houfe was met,
February. ^ Council of State made their Report to us, and
informed us of the unwarrantable Proceedings of the
Common Council, and of their own Refolutions
and Orders concerning them ; in the Execution of
which they afiured us Monke had by that Time
made a confiderable Progrefs, having already pulled
up the Pofts with their Chains, taken down the
Portcullices, and the Gates of the City, which he
had begun to cut in Pieces, and feized fome of the
moft active of the Common Council. The Parlia-
ment having heard the Report of the Council of
State, approved of what they had done, and ordered
Fifty Pounds to be given to Monke to defray the
Expence of his Dinner that Day, he having refufed
to dine at the Charge of the City, tho' earneftly im-
portuned to it by divers Citizens.
' All Things going fo well that Morning, both
in the Army and in the Parliament, Sir Arthur Ha-
fdrigge was again fo elevated, that, coming into the
Houfe in the Afternoon, he broke out, in the Pre-
fence of divers Members, into thefe Expreilions, All
is our own, he will be honejt. But it was not long be-
fore his Wine was turned into Water ; for as foon
as the Houfe was met, a Letter was prefented to the
Speaker from Monke, the Contents whereof made
them eafily perceive that his Zeal to their Service
began to cool. Therein he acquainted them with
what he had done in Profecution of the Orders he
had received, and that he wanted Tools and Inftru-
ments to finim the Work, having already fpoiled all
thofe that he had brought with him to cut the Gates
and other Defences of the City in Pieces ; that the
Mayor and Citizens had promifed Obedience to the
Parliament for the Time to come, and therefore he
defired they would refpite the Execution of what
remained of his Inftru&ions ; hoping that what had
been done would be a fufficient Admonition to the
City for their future gopd Behaviour.
Of ENGLAND. 123
6 The Parliament, underftanding the Tendency Inter-regnum,
of this Letter, were highly offended with Monke^ for 1659.
prefuming to neglect and difpute their Commands ; t-— v— •-*
and being refolved to do as much as they could in e ruary*
this Matter to preferve their Authority, they dif-
patched a Meflage to him, requiring the exa6t Per-
formance of the Orders he had received. Upon the
Receit of thefe fecond Orders, Monke feemed much
difturbcd, but yielded little or no Obedience to
them, and lay that Night in the City. The Day
following he returned with his Forces to Whitehall^
and about two Days after he fent a Letter to the
Houfe, directed to the Speaker, and fubfcribed by
himfelf and ibme of his Officers ; wherein they com-
plained that the Parliament had put them upon the
late difobliging Work in the City, to render them
odious to the Citizens ; that they continued to fa-
vour the Fanatic Party, by not profecuting thofe
that had a6led with the Army in the late Committee
of Safety, and by permitting Sir Henry Vane and
Col. Lambert to ftay in Town contrary to their own
Oidcr for their Removal ; that they admitted Men
to fit with them in the Houfe, who lay under Accu-
fations of High Treafon, (meaning Mr. Miles Cor-
bet and me, tho' not naming us); that, on the con-
trary, they {hewed a Backwardnefs to repofe any
Confidence in thofe who were their trueft Friends ;
upbraiding them with refufing to approve fome Offi-
cers that had been prefented to them, and delaying
to grant Commiffions to others whom they had ap-
proved. They alfo reflected upon the Parliament
for not making Provifion for the Army, nor minding
the Public Work, putting them in Mind of the Vote
for their Diflblution in May following ; and adding
fome threatening Expreflions, in cafe they fhould not
ifTue out Writs for filling up the Parliament accord-
ing to their Promife.
' After the reading of this Letter from Monke, I
perceived moft of the Members, who had any Affec-
tion to their Country, to be much deje&ed. But
the Parliament having diverted themfelves of their
own Strength, and abandoned all into the Hands of
Mcnke,
124 The Parliamentary HISTORY
inter-regnuro. Monke, tho* no Man had ever before prefumed to
1659. addrefs himfelf to them in fo infolent a Manner, yet
l~rrv — J they took his Letter into Confederation, and refol-
ved to give him as much Satisfaaion as they could
with any Colour of Juftice. To that End they
quickened their Committee to bring in their Report
touching thofe that had aded in the late Committee
of Safety. They ordered Sir Henry Fane to depart
the Town by a certain Day, and that Col. Lambert
fliould render himfelf within a limited Time. They
alfo refolved to iffue out Writs of Summons for re-
cruiting the Houfe ; but being fully perfuaded that
the Charge of High Treafon againft me was ground-
lefs and frivolous, they omitted to make any Order
concerning it. However, being defirous to procure
fome Relief for thofe whom I had left at Duncannony
and to endeavour that the Forces in Ireland might
be put into good Hands, I hoped that, if I fhould
move to be heard, I might at the fame Time have
an Opportunity to prefs the two laft Things, which
I efteemed very neceffary in that Conjundure. I
defired, therefore, that fmce I conceived myfelf
aimed at in one Part of Monke'* Letter, the Parlia-
ment would be pleafed to hear me in Vindication of
my Innocence : But I could not obtain a prefent
Hearing, my Cafe being put off till a farther Time,
and then delayed from Day to Day, till the Diffipa-
tion of thofe who mould have been my Judges.
* Sir Henry Vane, according to the late Order,
was preparing to leave the Town; of which having
Notice, I went to make him a Vifit at his Houfe^
where he told me that, unlefs he was much miftaken,
Monke had yet feveral Mafks to pull off; aflurino- me,
for what concerned himfelf, that he had all poilible
Satisfaaion of Mind as to thofe Aaions God had
enabled him to do for the Commonwealth, and ho-
ped the fame God would fortify him in his Suffer-
ings, how fharp foever, to bear a faithful and con-
Itant I eftimony thereto. Monke havino- alarmed
the Parliament by the forefaid Letter, and either not
daring to truft himfelf at Whitehall, or thinkino-
London a fitter Place to purfue his Defign in, he re-
tired
Of E N G L A N D. 125
tired with his Forces into the City, where he mufter-
ed his Men, and was fplendidly entertained at Din-
ner by the Mayor and others. Hereupon the Par-
liament, who endeavoured by all Means to give him
Satisfaction, fent Mr. Thomas Scott and Mr. Luke
Robinfon^ who had been their Commiffioners to
him, as I mentioned before, to aflure him of their
good Intentions towards him. But he having now
fortified himfelf by the Conjunction of the City, be-
gan to treat them in a Manner much different from,
his former Carriage, not admitting them, without
Difficulty, to his Prefence ; and, when he cond*-
fcended to fpeak to them, his Difcourfe tended al-
ways to the fame Purpofe with his Letter, afperfing
the Proceedings of the Parliament ; and, amongft
other Things, reproaching them with their Favour to
me, as Mr. Scott afterwards informed me ; infomuch
that he who had fo lately undertaken to the Parlia-
ment for Monke's Integrity and Fidelity to their
Service, began to lofe all Hopes of him. Yet for all
his infolent Carriage to the Parliament and their
Commiffioners, his Party in the Houfe had the Con-
fidence to move that he might be made General of
their Forces, the Time limited by A61 of Parlia-
ment, for commiffionating him, with others, to
command the Army in England and Scotland, being
almoft expired. Many Arguments were ufed to
that End, tho' thofe which were moft preffed were
taken from the Confideration of the prefent Pofture
of their Affairs.
.« But the Parliament ftill retaining fome Sparks
of that Courage with which they had been formerly
animated, and having found, by fad Experience, what
Miferies they had brought upon the Nation and
themfelves, by trufting Cromwell and others too far,
chofe rather to perifh by the Hands of an Enemy, if
Monke ftiould refolve to be fo, than by the Delufions
of a pretended Friend : And therefore, having re-
jected the Propofition to make him General, they
pafled a Vote, That their Armies in England and
Scotland fhould be governed by Commiffioners, the
Number
126 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Number of them to be five, and any three of them
to make a Quorum. But that they might avoid, as
much as poffible, to give him the leaft juft Caufe of
f cbruary. Difcontent> they firft agreed that he fhould be one
of the faid Commiffioners : Then they proceeded to
the Nomination of the reft, and choie Sir Arthur
Hafilrigge, ftho' he earneftly preiTed them to excufe
him) Col. Morley, and Col. Walton. Thefe four
being eleded, it was vifible that the Balance of the
Commiflion would be in the fifth Man that fhould
be chofen, Monke having, in a Manner, declared
himfelf our Enemy, and Col. Morley being fuffi-
ciently known to be of a temporizing Spirit.
' Hereupon Monke's Party in the Houie moved
that Sir Anthony A/hley Cooper might be the fifth
Commiffioner ; and, on the other Side, the Com-
monwealth Party had refolved to ufe thti: Endea-
vours for Major-General Ovcrtsn : But upon Con-
fideration of the Differences that had been between
him and Monke, whereby they feared he would not
pafs, they laid afide that Refolution, and agreed to put
up Col. Alured. Sir Anthony AJhley Cooper, being firft
named, was firft put to the Queftion, and by the
Majority of Votes excluded. Col. Alured being next
propofed, the Queftion was carried for him, to the
great Satisfaction of the Commonwealth Party.
' Whereupon, fitting by Col. Martin in the Houfe,
and being perfuaded of the Integrity of the major
Part of thefe Commiffioners, I defired him to move
that the Command of the Forces in Ireland might
be inferted in this Commiflion, which, upon his
Motion, was ordered accordingly ; and the Aft, be-
ing but fhort, was read thrice, and pafled before the
rifing of the Houfe : And this I did, becaufe I found
no other probable Way open to force the Power in
Ireland out of the Hands of thofe that had ufurped
it. Though thefe Proceedings did not a iitde difturb
Monke, yet he endeavoured to difguife his Difiatis-
fa£lk>n, and began again to court the Members of
Parliament more than before; whilft, with the Ad-
vice and Afliftance of his Party in the City, he was
forming a Militia there, and nominating Officers to
command
Of E N G L A N D. 127
command them, who were chofen for thatPurpofe, Inter-regnuro.
rather on Account of their Difaffe&ion to the Par- l6S9-
liament, than any other grood Quality to be found *-— "v~— •*
among them. Feb^'
* Having received Advice of thefe Tranfaclions,
I acquainted Sir Arthur Hafilrigge with my Informa-
tion, and defired him to think of fome fpeedy Re-
medy, propofmg that he would caufe our fcattered
Forces to rendezvous forthwith. But Sir Arthur
was fo deluded by the Hypocrify of Monke, that he
affured me he had given him all the Satisfaction,
both by Words and Letters, that a Man could give
touching his Integrity to the Parliament ; fhewing
me, and divers other Members of Parliament, two
Letters, which he had lately received from him,
wherein were many Expreffions of his Zeal for the
Eftablifliment of a Commonwealth, with earneft
Defires that there might be no Difference between
them touching the Way, feeing they were both in-
tirely agreed in the fame End.'
Neither mufl we forget the Lord Whltlocke in our
Searches after the Hiftory of thofe Times ; for, tho*
Jftill in his Country Retirement, yet we find, by his
Memoirs, that he had very good Intelligence of
what was doing in Town. This Writer, after tel-
ling us of Monke's March into London, and of an
Order made by the Houfe, That he fhould attend
the Parliament and receive their Senfe, in relation
to his fignal and faithful Services, has left us a larger
Account of the General's Speech in the Houfe, than
either of the foregoing.
He fays, ' That when Scott reported that Monkey.
was come to attend the Houfe, and was in the
Court of Wards, the Serjeant at Arms was fent for
him, and brought him into the Houfe, accompa-
nied with Scott and Roblnfon. After his Obeifance,
a Chair of Velvet being fet for him on the Left
Hand within the Bar, the Speaker defired him to fit
down ; but he defired to be excufed, and flood be-
hind the Chair, whilft the Speaker made a Speech
to
ia8 The Parliamentary HisroRr
Inter-regnum. to him, magnifying his Service and Merits, and gi-
l659v ving him the hearty Thanks of the Houfe.
*TTV-'11^ ' Monfce anfwered him, extolling the Mercy of
e ruary. fae'ir Restitution, and acknowledging the Goodneis
of God to him, in making him inftrumental there-
in j which was but his Duty, and deferved not the
Honour they had done him. He told them of the
many Addrefies to him, in his Journey, for a free
and full Parliament, and that this Parliament would
determine their fitting.
' That, as to the fecluded Members, he anfwered
them, That this Parliament had already given their
Judgment, in which ail ought to acquiefce ; and
that no Parliament had admitted new Members to
fit without a previous Oath or Engagement ; and
he now faith it to the Parliament, that the lefs
Oaths and Engagements are impofed, the Settle-
ment will be the (boner attained; and he hoped the
Parliament would be careful that neither the Cava-
lier nor Fanatic Party have yet a Share in the Civil
or Military Power.
' Then he fpake of Ireland and of Scotland, who
feared nothing more than to be over-run with Fa-
natic Notions ; and he defired a Settlement there,
and their Favour to that Nation.
' Part of his Speech troubled and amufed fome of
his Mafters of the Parliament; and how himfelf
purfued what he pretended, will afterwards appear/
We have now done with all the Quotations from
old Authorities, which we think neceiFary to intro-
duce, towards clearing up the Hiftory to this Pe-
riod, and proceed with the Journals for the fuc-
ceeding Days of this Month.
February 13. The firft Thing we find on this
The Journal:. Day is another Order of the Houfe, for the Serjeant
at Arms to carry Sir Henry Vane to his Houfe at
Bellew, in the County of Lincoln. A Proclamation
was alfo read and agreed to by the Houfe, for Col.
John Lambert to render himfelf, on a Day fixed,
to
Of E N G L A N D. 129
to the Council of State, and give an Account of his later- regnum.
Contempt of the Order of Parliament j or, in De- l659-
fault thereof, that his Eftate, Real and Perfonal, ^~^^~J
be fequeftered. This Proclamation to be forthwith
printed, publifhed, and proclaimed by the Serjeant
at Arms, in Weftminftcr-Hall, the New Palace-
Tardy and at the Old Exchange, London.
We have met with a Copy of this Proclamation,
printed amongft the various Diurnals, or News
Papers, of thefe Times, which take in its own
Words :
By the PARLIAMENT.
e "I T jTHereas John Lambert , Efq; being com- A Proclamation
* VV manded by the Parliament to repair toasainft **«*"*•
' one of his Dwelling-Houfes, moft remote from
* the City of London, in order to the Quiet and Peace
* of the Commonwealth, and afterwards, upon Re-
« queft made on his Behalf, was ordered to repair
' to Holmby, in the County of Northampton, there
' to remain and abide during the Pleafure of Par-
« liament ; to which Command the fad John Lam-
' bert hath not fubmitted, but doth, or did lately,
' lye privately in and about the City of London, as
* is informed, and is Vehemently fufpe&ed to have
' promoted, countenanced, and abetted the late Mu-
* tiny and Tumult at Somerfet-Houfe, in the Strand,
' upon the fecond of February, 1659 : It is therefore
« ordered that the faid John Lambert do render him-
' felf, by Thurfday next, to the Council of State, to
* give an Account of his Contempt of Order of Par-
' liament ; and, in Default thereof, the Eftate, Real
' and Perfonal, of the faid John Lambert, is to be
' feized and fequeftered to and for the Ufe of the
* Commonwealth : And the Commiffioners of Se-
' queftrations fitting at HaberdaJhers-Hall, in Lon-
* don, are hereby commanded to fequefter the fame
' accordingly : And it is further ordered, That this
' prefent Order be proclaimed and publiflied in
' IVejlminJler, according to ufual Courfe.'
VOL. XXII. I «.0r-
130 *T^ Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. « Ordered, alfo, That the Members of this Houfc,
l659» who had acted at the pretended Committee of Safe-
V* •— \/~**J ty? (10 appear in Parliament on this Day Se'nnight;
February. ^ jjoufe tnen to go upon the Bufmefs relating to
the faid Members, the firft Thing, and nothing to
intervene.' A Committee likewife was appointed to
fend for Henry Scobe/l, Efq; and Mr. Robin/on^ late
Clerk to the Committee of Safety, to examine all
the Books, Papers, &c. that are in their Hands, par-
ticularly a Draught of a Form of Government, pre-
fented to the faid Committee, and report their Opi-
nion which of the Things were worthy for the Con-
fideration of Parliament.
The Vote was alfo renewed for a Month's Pay
to be forthwith advanced to all the Forces and Gar-
rifons in England; the Committee for the Army to
provide the fame.
February 14. Mr. Millington reported from th?
Committee, to whom the Bill touching the Engage-
ment was referred, the Amendments to the faid Bill,
which were twice read, and then it was refolved,
That the Engagement be in thefe Words, viz.
I A. B. do promife and declare, That I will be true
find faithful to the Commonwealth of England, and
the Government thereof, in the Way of a Common-
wealth and Free State, without a King, Single Per-
fan, or Houfe of Lords.
Lord-Commiffioner Widdringt(m and Mr. Solli-
citor Ellis were ordered to bring in an A& the next
Morning, for the Council of State to take this En-
gagement, inftead of the Oath of Renunciation ; and
that, upon taking thereof, with the Refidue of the
Inftrudtions given to the Council of State, they do
fit and aft with the reft of that Council.
February 15. Letters from Col. Over ton at Hull.
dated February 12, 1659, and a Declaration, under
the Hands of feveral Gentlemen in Ycrkfiire, were
read, declaring for the fecluded Members, or a Free
Par-
Of ENGLAND. 13*
Parliament, and againft paying of Taxes. Referred Inter-rcgnum.
to the Council of State. i*59-
A Paper was given to the Houfe, by Alderman *~^y~*~*
Atkins, of feveral Informations taken by the Lord
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London j with
their Defire that it might be examined, the fame
being fcandalous to divers Members of Parliament.
Referred to a Committee.
February 1 6. The A& concerning the Oath, or
Engagement, to be taken by the Members of the
Council of State, was read a fecond Time, with
Amendments ; and, upon the Queftion, paffed.—-
Some additional Qualifications for Members of Par-
liament were alfo brought in, read, and agreed to be
Part of the Bill. A Divifion of the Houfe happen-
ing on one of thefe Additions, the Numbers were
I'j to 26 j which we mention only to {hew trte
Strength of the Houfe at that Time.
February 1 8. Some more Additions were offered,
but rejected, and no more were voted to be added
to this Bill ; which, upon the third Reading, was
paffed, and ordered to be printed and publifhed :
The Title to be, An Aft concerning Elections of
Members to ferve in Parliament.
This extraordinary Aft, which took up fo much
Time to model and make fit for their Purpofe, we.
have never yet met with at Length; but the Reader
will have fome Notion what it was, by the follow-
ing Abftraft of it, taken from one of the weekly
News Papers of thofe Times, publiftied by Autho-
rity. Some of the principal Heads of this A61 are
as followeth :
' No Perfon who hath been concerned in the Irijh
* Rebellion, or who are ProfefTors of the Popifti
* Religion, or who have married a Wife of the
' fame, or brought up his Children therein, or have
* been in Arms againft the Parliament fince Jan. i,
* 1641, unlefs reftored by Commiifion fince May 7,
* 1659, an<^ continued faithful fince ; or fuch as
* have been concerned in any Plot for Charles Stu-
I 2 art
132 The Parliamentary HisxofcY
later- regnum. c art fince 1648, or that have advifed or promoted
* a Single Perfon fince Jan. I, 1659 ; nor any Per-
FebruaT1*1^ ' *°" di^abled by A(^ J7' ^*r' intituled, An Aft
r^' ' difabling Perfons in Holy Orders ; neither any Per-
* fon who denieth the Scriptures to be the Word
* of God, or the Sacrament, Prayer, Magiftracy, or
4 Miniftry to be the Word of God ; nor fuch as -are
* guilty of any of the Offences in the Act bearing
* Date 1650, intituled, An Acl againjl federal blaf-
4 phemou* and execrable Opinions, derogatory to the
4 Honour of God, and destructive to human Socie-
4 ty j no common Profaner of the Lord's Day, no
4 common profane Swearer or Curfer, nor common
4 Drunkard j nor the Son of a fequeftered Perfon
4 (unlefs fuch Sons as have borne Arms for the Parlia-
4 ment, and continued faithful thereto) during the
4 Life of his Father ; nor any that promife or give a
4 Reward to be elected, or any Entertainment to the
4 Electors ; alfo that the Elected takes the Engage
4 ment before he fits in the Houfe. They who are
4 elected and fit in Parliament, contrary to thefe
4 Qualifications, to forfeit iooo/. to the Common*
4 wealth ; and thofe who elect contrary to the Tenor
4 of this Aft, to forfeit one Part of their Real Eftate
4 and one Part of their Perfonal Eftate to the Com-
* mon wealth.'
February 18. Being Saturday , the Houfe, on the
breaking up, adjourned itfelf to Monday the 20th ;
on which Day we meet with nothing but an Hiatus,
marked with fome Afterifms, in the Journals ; the
Reafon of which will be explained in the Sequel, as
well as the following extraordinary Refolutions,
which are entered as made on the next Day, when
we find the Face of Things greatly changed in the
Houfe.
Several Refolu- Refolved, * That the Refolution of this Houfe,
tionsfor expun-of the l8th of December, 1648, that Liberty be gi-
in ven to the Members of this Houfe, to declare their
Diflent to the Vote of the 5th of December, 1648 :
That the King's Anfwer to the Propofitions of
fcoth Hou&s, was a Ground for this Houfe to pro-
cecc
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teed upon, for Settlement of the Peace of the King-
dom, be vacated, and made null and void, and ob-
Jiterated. February.
Refolved, « That the Refolution of this Houfe,
of the 20th of December •, 1648, touching Members
declaring their Diflent or Difapproval of the faid
Vote, of the 5th of December ; 164.8, to a Commit-r
tee therein named ; and every Claufe of the faid
Order, be vacated, and made null and void, and
obliterated.
Refolved, « That the Order of the 23d of Febru-
ary y 1648, that no Member that hath not fitten in
this Houfe fmce the 31 ft of January then laft, fhould
fit in any Committee, until! this Houfe take further
Order, be vacated, and made null and void, and ob-
literated.
Refolved, « That the feveral Votes, of the 20th
of December, 1648, touching the Manner and Entry
of the difapproving of the feveral Members to the
Vote of the 5th of December, 1648, be made null
and void, and obliterated out of the Journal-Book.
Refolved, « That the Vote of the gth of June*
1649, touching the fufpending the fitting of fuch
Members as fhould not enter their Diflent or Dif-
approval of the faid Vote of the 5th of December^
1648, and fhould not, before the 30th of the faid
Month of June, give Satisfaction to the faid Com-
mittee, and that the Houfe would proceed to the
Election of new Members in their room, be vaca-
ted, and made null and void, and obliterated.
Refolved, « That all Orders of this Houfe made
upon a Paper, intituled, A folemn Protejlation of the
imprifoned and feduded Members of the Commons
Houfe, again/I the horrid Force and Violence of the
Officers and Soldiers of the Army, on Wednefday and
Thurfday la/i, being the 6th and yth of December,
1648, be, and are hereby, vacated, and made null
and void, and obliterated : And that the faid Paper
be taken off the File.
Refolved, « That the Refolution of Parliament,
<jf the 5th of January, 1659, for confirming thej
I 3 former
February.
134 'The Parliamentary HISTORY
former Votes, be likewife vacated, and made null
and void, and obliterated.
Refolved, « That all Votes of this Houfe, touch^
ing new Ele&ions of Members to fit and ferve in this
Parliament, be, and are hereby, vacated : And that
Mr. Speaker be, and is, required not to fign any
fuch Orders.
And it was ordered to be referred to Mr. Ra-
leigh, Col. Pury, Mr. Weaver ^ Sir Anthony AJhlty
Cooper, Mr. Annejley, Mr. Prynne, or any three of
them, who were to meet in the Speaker's Chamber
that Afternoon, to expunge and obliterate the Votes
and Refolutions of the Houfe, vacated this Day ;
who were to confider what other Votes there are of
this Nature, and to report their Opinion to the Par-
liament.
Then it was refolved, 6 That General George
Monke be conftituted and appointed Captain-Gene>
ral and Commander in Chief, under the Parlia-
ment, of all the Land Forces of England, Scotland^
and Ireland 5 and that Vice- Admiral Lawfon be
Continued Vice- Admiral of the Naval Forces.
The Aft appointing Commiflioners for Govern-
ment of the Army being next read, it was refolved,
* That all the Powers thereby granted to General
George Monke, Sir Arthur Hafilriggs, Colonels
Walton, Merley, and Alurtd, do ceafe j and that
the faid Commiflioners be requir'd to forbear to pro-
ceed to aft any further thereupon j and Col. Morley
to give Notice of this Vote to the reft of the faid
Commiflioners ; and an A& for Repeal of the faid
A<£t appointing Commiffioners for Government of
the Army be brought in by the before-mentioned
Committee, to whom Mr. Scawtn and Mr. Serjeant
Maynard were to be added.
Then it was refolved, That Sir Robert Pye, Ma-
jor Fincber, Mr. Vinctnt, Mr. Bludworth, Major
Chamberlayne, Col. Blomfield, Mr. Jack/on, Major
C»x, Mr. Thomas Browne, and Mr. Rootes, be dif-
^harged of their Imprifonment, upon giving Security
Of ENGLAND. 135
to the Lieutenant of the Tower not to difturb the Inter-regnum*
Peace of the Commonwealth. The Lieutenant of
the Tower was ordered to give an Account to the
Parliament the next Morning of the Caufe of Sir
George Booth's and Major Peter Brooke's Imprifon-
ment.
Ordered, * That all fuch Orders as have been
made fince Saturday laft, by the Council of State, or
Commiffioners of the Army, concerning the Forces
and Garrifons, be communicated to General George
Monke ; and that there be no Proceedings upon any
of the faid Orders, without the Approbation of the
faid General Monke.
Refolded, « That all the Powers given to the
Council of State be, and are hereby, fufpended until!
the Parliament take further Order ; and that Mr.
f leaver do give Notice of this Order to the Council
of State, and leave the Order with the Clerk of the
Council.
Ordered, « That Serjeant Maynard, Mr. Prynne%
and Mr. Solicitor Ellis ^ do bring in a Bill this After-
noon for conftituting a new Council of State.
In the Afternoon of this Day the Order of the
9th of February^ for difcontinuing the prefent Com-
mon Council of the City of London^ was vacated :
And it was refolved, That the Lord Mayor, Alder-
men, and Common Council of the City of London^
have Liberty to make up their Gates, Pofts, Port-
cullices, and Chains, as they (hall fee Caufe, and
Sir Gilbert Gerrard^ Mr. Vajjel* and Alderman At-
kiny were ordered to deliver thefe Votes to the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council.
It was alfo ordered, That Mr. Sollicitor-Gene-
ral, Mr. Serjeant Glynn^ and Mr. Serjeant Maynard*
do bring in a Bill for repealing the Aft conftituting
Commiffioners for Government of the Army.
Mr. Weaver acquainted the Houfe, that he had
given Notice to the Council of State of the Order of
the Houfe for fufpending them, and that ready Obe-
dience was yielded thereunto.
Mr. Serjeant Maynard reported a Bill, conftitu-
ting a Council of State, which was read the firft
and
136 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter- rcgnum. and fecond Time this Day, and, upon the Queftion-,
l659- committed to a Committee, who were to meet
**-Tv^~~' that Afternoon in the Speaker's Chamber, with
'ary* Power to confider of thefe Inftrudiojis, and of for-
mer Inftrudtions given to the Council of State, and
to prefent fuch Inftrudtions to the Parliament as they
iliould think fit for their Confutation.
Then it was refolved, That the Number of the
Council of State be Thirty- one; thatGeneralGW^?
Monke be one of the Council of State j and that the
refpe&ive Members of Parliament prepare their
Papers to make up Thirty Perfons more to be of the
Council of State, who were to be chofen by Glades,
as formerly accuftomed, the next Morning.
Mr. Cheftvy High-Sheriff of Buckingham/hire,
Henry Brooke, Efq; Sir Jthn Norcott, Sir JVilliam
Courtney i Sir Richard Temple , Sir Coplejlwi Bamfield,
and the Apprentices of London, now in Prifon at
Lambeth- Houfe, were ordered to be difcharged from
their Imprifonment ; and the Keeper of Windfor
Caftle was ordered to certify to the Parliament the
Caufes of the Imprifonment of the Earls of Craw-
ford and Laudtrdaby a.nd Lord Saintcleir, now in
Prifon there.
February 22. It was refolved, That Sir George
Booth be difcharged from his Imprifonment in the
Tower, upon giving 5000 L Bail toanfwer anything
that {hall be obje&ed againft him, and the Sequeftra-
tion of his Eftate was fufpended untill the Parliament
take further Order. Mr. Faunt, Sheriff of the
County of Leicejler, was alfo difcharged from his
Imprifonment.
Sir Gilbert Gerrard reported, That he acquainted
the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London, with the
Refolves made Yefterday j and that they return their
humble Thanks to the Parliament for their Refpeds
to the City.
Then it was refolved, That the Gates, Portcul-
lices, and Pofts, of the City of London, be made up
at the public Charge of the State.
February
Of E N G L A N D.
February 23. It was ordered, ' That Sir William Inter-regnum«
ann, now in Prifon in Dover-Caftle, Sir John
Boys, Mr. William Sumner, and all other Perfons who
flood committed only for tendering an Addrefs, of
Declaration, for a Free Parliament, be difoharged
from their Imprifonment ; and all Warrants for ap^
prehending Perfons for making any fuch Declara-
tions or Addrefles, were declared null and void.'
Refolved, « That all the Militias in the refpeclive
Counties, and the Powers given to them, be revo-
ked j that the levying of any Men, Monies, Horfes,
or Arms, be forborne j that this Vote be forthwith
printed and publifhed ; that the Members do fend
them into their refpe£Kve Counties by the Poft this
Night ; and that a Committee be appointed to bring
in a Bill for fettling the feveral Militias in the re-
fpe&ive Counties.*
The Houfe, according to former Order, pro-
ceeded in the Election of the Council of State ; and,
after telling the Houfe by Order of the Speaker,
there appeared to be 113 Members prefent, the fol-
lowing, after being balloted, were feverally refolved
to be the Council of State, viz. William Pierpoint,
John Crew, Col. RoJJiter, Richard Knightley, Col.
Popham, Col. Morley, Lord Fairfax, Sir Anthony
Ajhley Cooper, Sir Gilbert Gerrard, Lord Chief Juftice
St. John, Lord Commiflioner Widdrington, Sir John
Evelyn, of Wits, Sir William Waller, Sir Richard
On/low, Sir William Lewis, Col. Edward Monta-
gue, Col. Edward Harley, Richard Norton, Arthur
Annefley, Denzil Holies, Sir John Temple, Col. George
Thompfon, John Trevor, Sir John Holland, Sir John
Potts, Col. John Birch, Sir Harbottle Grim ft on,
John Swinfen, John Weaver, and Serjeant Maynard.
Mr. Anne/ley was ordered to bring in Inftrudtions
for the Council of State the next Morning.
Sir Richard On/low reported, « That the Com-
mittee appointed Yefterday had, according to the
Command of the Parliament, acquainted the Lord
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London with the
Votes of the Parliament ; and that the City was fa
forward to exprefs their Affections to the Parlia-
ment,
138 The Parliamentary HISTORY
loter-regnum, ment, that, notwithftanding the great Decay of
Trade, and Poverty of the City, they did offer to
advance 60,000 /. towards the prefent Supply of the
Army and Navy i and did therefore humbly requeft
the Parliament to appoint fome of the Aldermen of
the City to receive the Afleffments, for their Reirn-
burfement.
The City of Lou- The Houfe being informed that divers Aldcr-
<fc*'s verbal Ad-men of tj^e Qty of London were at the Door.
drefs to Parha- , 11 j • j i_ • i T§
meat j they were called in ; and, being come to the Bar,
Mr. Alderman Fowke acquainted the Houfe, ' That
the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Coun-
cil of the City of London, being fenfible of the Good-
nels of God, in uniting the Parliament, and refto-
ring the Members to the Difcharge of their Truft,
thought it their Duty, upon their firft Meeting, to
give Glory to God, and had fet apart Tuefday next
for a Day of Thankfgiving : That they acknow-
ledge it their Duty to return their humble Thanks
for the Favour of the Parliament, exprefled in their
late Votes ; and the Seafonablenefs of it : That
though they had been laid low, and not fully an-
fwered what had been expected from them ; and
had been looked upon as Perfons difaffe&ed to the
Parliament ; tho' they were in fome Things difia-
tisfied, yet they were ever Well-willeis to the Par-
liament. He did, with Thankfulnefs, own the Re-
folutions of the Parliament, in reftoring the Mem-
bers that were iinprifoncd j and in ordering their
Gates, Portcullices, Potts, and Chains, to be fet up
at the public Charge of the State : That the Con-
fidence the Parliament put in the City would not
be mifplaced, nor their Expectations fruftrated : That
the City did congratulate the happy Return of the
Parliament : That they found fome Perfons for a
Monarchical, fome for a Commonwealth, fome for
no Government at all. The laft they did diflike ;
for the other they would not prefume to direct, but
Ihould acquiefce and fubmit to the Determination
of Parliament; And concluded with an humble
Defire, That the Militia of the City might be put
into
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into fuch Hands as the City might confide in : And, Inter-rejnum,
to that End, tendered a Lift of Names of Commif-
fioners for their Militia ; yet with humble Subrnif-
fion to the Judgment of the Parliament. And alfo
deliver'd aPetition, which, after the Petitioners were
withdrawn, was read, and was addrefied to the
Parliament of England, and intituled, The humble Pe-
tition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the
City of London, in Common Council affembled?
The Petitioners being called in again, Mr. Speaker
gave them this Anfwer :
' Gentlemen, If we may meafure Affections by theTbanksreturn'4
Number of the Perfons that came to prefent yourty the Houfe.
Petition, we may fay you brought the Affections of
the whole City with you. Your Expreffions at the
Bar intimate no lefs ; and you may reft aflured of
the like from the Parliament, you acknowledging
that Duty and Refpe& which is due from you to the
Parliament. They have read your Petition, and have
alfo already read your Lift, and patted it, as you de-
fired. The Members of Parliament, who were Ye-
fterday with the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, have
made a Report of the great Readinefs of the City to
advance Money for the prefent Supply of the Army
and Navy. Whatever Miftakes have been formerly,
it can't but be an happy Day to all but our Enemies,
in that all the Affections of the City and Parliament
are joined together. You have Ihewed yours, as
well by your Words as Actions. And the Par-
liament have commanded me, for your good Af-
re6tions and Actions, to give you hearty Thanks :
And, in their Names, I do give you very hearty
Thanks/
Then it was refolved, That Tuefday the 2$th
Inft. be fet apart for a Day of Thankfgiving to the
Lord, to be obferved by the Parliament in Mar-
garet's Church, Weftminfier^ for the happy Union df
the Parliament, and the Return of their Members to
the Difcharge of their Truft ; and ordered, That
Mr, Calamy be defired to carry on the Work of the
Day,
140 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum, Day, and Mr. Annefley to give him Notice there-*
1<559- Of.
A Letter from General Monke^ at Whitehall^ of
the aiftof February, 1659, was read: This is all
the Intimation the Journals give us of a Letter of
this Date ; but the old Collection which we have
mentioned calls it a Speech and a Declaration which
the General made to the Houfe at Whitehall, on
Tuefday, February 21, from which Authority we
ihall here introduce them. k
'The SPEECH of bis Excellency the Lord-General
MONK.E.
Gentlemen,
A Speech and < "\7'OU are not, I hope, ignorant what Care and
?hf SfaLn°t ' I Endeavours have been ufed, and Means ef-
from General ' fayed, for healing the Breaches of our Divifions
* amongft ourfelves ; and that, in order thereunto,
* divers Conferences have been procured between
* you, though to fmall Effect ; yet having at length
* received fuller Satisfaction from thefe worthy Gen-
* tlemen that were fecluded than formerly, I was
* bold to put you all to the Trouble of this Meeting,
* that I might open myfelf to you all, even with
* more Freedom than formerly: But, left I might be
e mifapprehended or miftaken, as of late it befell
* me, I have committed to writing the Heads of
* what I intended to difcourfe to you, and defire it
' may be read openly to you all.'
The DECLARATION.
Gentlemen,
c TT appears unto me, by what I have heard from
* JL you and the whole Nation, that the Peace and
' happy Settlement of thefe bleeding Nations, next
* under God, lyeth in your Hands. And when I
* confider that Wifdom, Piety, and Self-denial,
e which I have Reafon to be confident lodgeth in
« you ;
fc Thefe were alfo printed by themfelves in a ftngle Pamphlet, by
the General's Order, for John Playford, in the Temple, 1659.
Of E N G L A N D. 141
* you ; and how great a Share of the Nation's Suf- Jnter-rcgnum.
* ferings will fall upon you, in cafe the Lord deny '^Sfr
' us now a Settlement, I am in very good Hopes *~~~F7"
* there will be found in you all fuch melting Bowels
' towards thefe poor Nations, and towards one ano-
* ther, that you will become Healers and Makers-
* up of all its woful Breaches. And that fuch an
* Opportunity may clearly appear to be in your
* Hands, I thought good to afTure you, and that in
1 the Prefence of God, that I have nothing before
* my Eyes but God's Glory, and the Settlement of
* thefe Nations upon Commonwealth Foundations:
6 In purfuit whereof Ifliall think nothing too dear;
' and, for my own Particular, I {hall throw myfelf
* down at your Feet, to be any thing or nothing in
* order to thefe great Ends.
4 As to the Way of future Settlement, far be iC
* from me to impofe any thing; I defire you may be
* in perfect Freedom ; only give me Leave to mind
' you, that the old Foundations are, by God's Pro-
* vidence, fo broken, that, in the Eye of Reafon,
' they cannot be reftored, but upon the Ruin of the
6 People of thefe Nations, that have engaged for
' their Rights in Defence of the Parliament, and the
' great and main Ends of the Covenant, for uniting
( and making the Lord's Name one in the Three
* Nations. And alfo the Liberty of the People's
' Reprefentatives in Parliament will certainly be
* loft ; for if the People find that, after fo long and
* bloody a War againft the King for breaking in
* upon their Liberties, yet at laft he muft be taken
* in again, it will be out of Queftion, and is moft
* manifeft, he may for the future govern by his
* Will, difpofe of Parliaments and Parliament-Men
6 as he pleafeth, and yet the People will never more
* rife for their Afliftance.
' And as to the Interefts of this famous City,
* (which hath been, in all Ages, the Bulwark of
* Parliaments, and unto whom I am, for their great
* AffecYion, fo deeply engaged) certainly it muft lye
* in a Commonwealth ; that Government only be -
' ing
142 The Parliamentary HISTORV
Inter-regnutm 4 ing capable to make them, through the Lord's
l659- < Bleffing, the Metropolis and Bank of Trade for all
<r"7v~"*"J ' Chriftendom, whereunto God and Nature hath
tuafy' « fitted them above all others.
4 And as to a Government in the Church, the
4 Want whereof hath been no fmall Caufe of thefe
« Nations Diftra&ions ; it is moft manifeft, that, if
* it be Monarchical in the State, the Church muft
4 follow, and Prelacy muft be brought in ; which
' thefe Nations, I know, cannot bear, and againft
* which they have fo folemnly fworn : And indeed
4 moderate, not rigid, Prefbyterian Government,
* with a fufficient Liberty for Confciences truly ten-
4 der, appears at prefent to be the molt indifferent
4 and acceptable Way to the Church's Settlement.
' The main Thing that feems to lye in the Way
* is the Intereft of the Lords, even of thofe Lords
' who have {hewed themfelves Noble indeed, by
4 joining with the People; and, in Defence of thole
4 juft Rights, have adventured their deareft Blood
* and large Eftates. To that I fhall only fay, That
4 though the State of thefe Nations be fuch as can-
f not bear their fitting in a diftin£t Houfe, yet cer-
4 tainly the Wifdom of Parliament will find out fuch
4 hereditary Marks of Honour for them, as may
4 make them more Noble in After-ages.
' Gentlemen, Upon the whole Matter, the beft
c Refult that I can make at prefent for the Peace of
* thefe Nations, will be, in my Opinion, that you
' forthwith go to fit together in Parliament, in
* order,
1. 4 To the fettling the Conduct of the Armies
c of the Three Nations in that Manner as they may
* be ferviceable to the Peace and Safety of them,
4 and not to its own and the Nation's Ruin by Fac-
* tion and Divifion.
2. * To the providing fufficient Maintenance for
* them ; that is, for the Forces by Land, and for
4 the Navy by Sea, and all the Arrears of bath, and
4 other Contingencies of the Government.
3. ' To the appointing a Council of State, with
* Authority to fettle thfe Civil Government and Ju-
dicatories
Of E N G L A N D. 143
c dicatories in Scotland and Ireland, and to take Inter-regnant.
* Care for the iffuing of Writs for the fummoning a
« Parliament of thefe Three Nations united, to meet
« at Wejiminjler the 2Oth Day of April next, with
' fuch Qualifications as may fecure the Public Caufe
4 we are all engaged in, and according to fuch Di-
' ftributions as were ufed in the Year 1654: Which
* Parliament, fo called, may meet and act in Free-
* dom, for the more full eftablifhing of this Com-
* monwealth without a King, Single Perfon, or
' Houfe of Lords.
4. ' To a legal Diflblution of this Parliament, to
* make Way for Succeflion of Parliaments.
* And, in order to thefe good Ends, the Guards
e will not only willingly admit you, but faithfully,
6 both myfelf and every the Officers under my
* Command ; and, I believe, the Officers and Sol-
4 diers of the Three Nations will fpend their Blood
c for you and fucceffive Parliaments.
' If your Conjunction be directed to this End,
* you may part honourably, having made a fair Step
* to the Settlement of thefe Nations, by making a
* Way for fucceffive Parliaments.
« But I muft needs fay, that if any different
6 Counfels fhould be taken, which I have no Reafon
* to fear, thefe Nations would prefently be thrown
< back into Force and Violence, and all Hopes of
* this much-defired Eftablimment be buried in Dif-
* order j which the Lord, in his great Mercy, 1
c hope, will prevent : And fo God fpeed you well
' together, and unite your Hearts for the Prefer-
* vation of Peace, and Settlement of thefe Nations
6 to his own Glory, and yours and all our Com-
* forts/
February 24. It feems that this Speech and De-
claration were both very pleafmg to the Members,
for this Day the Bill for conftituting him Captain-
General an'd Commander in Chief of all the Land-
Forces in England, Scotland, and Ireland, was read
a firft and fecond Time, and committed. They
alfo
144 Tb* Parliamentary
later-rcgnum, alfo read a firft and fecond Time, and pafTed, a Billj
l659- intituled, An Att making void the Atts appointing
*~Z~fr~~*^ CommiJJioners for the Government of the Army, and
;uaiy. ^ making Charles Fleetwood, Ejq; Commander in
Chief of the Land- Forces, and order'd it to be printed
and publifhed.
Inftrudtions for the new Council of State were
alfo debated this Day, and many Additions and Al-
terations made to them j after which they were or-
dered to be ingrofied. The Queftion being put,
That a particular Time be limited for the Continu-
ance of the Council of State, it pafled in the Nega-
tive, 36 againft 26, and agreed the Time fliould be
till the Parliament take further Order. Lajlly, a
Bill was ordered to be brought in, for the Diflblu-
tion of this prefent Parliament; and that Mr. An-
nejley, Mr. Prynne, and Mr. SollicitOF-General do
prepare and bring in the faid Bill.
February 2$. The Bill for conflicting General
George Monke Captain-General, &c. was this Day
read a third Time ; and a Claufe being offered to be
added to it, viz. ' Whether it was by Pretence or
Colour of Authority from Charles Stuart, Son of the
late King, or from any other Single Perfon or Per-
fons whatfoever r' And the Queftion being put, That
this Claufe be now read, it pafled in the Negative,
without any Divifion.
Another Bill was brought in, and read a firft
Time, for fettling the Honour and Manor of Hamp-
ton-Court, and other Lands, upon General George
Monke, and his Heirs, and ordered a fecond Read-
ing the next Day. Thefe Donations of the Royal
Palaces and Domains were, no doubt, artfully mov'd
for in the Houfe by fome, who might otherways wilh
him hang'd out of the Way, in .order to bind the
General more to their Intereft for the Sake of his
own.
The Bill for conflicting a Council of State, with
Inflations, was read a third Time ; and a Claufe
vvas offered and agreed to be added to it, ' That the
Of ENGLAND, 145
A& with the Inftru&ions for a Council of State, Inter-regnum,
pafled Jan. 2, 1659, with all the Powers, Claufes, l6S9-
Articles, and InftrucYions therein contained, be and V^£7*"J
hereby are repealed, made null and void.' After
which the faid A£l, being put to the Queftion,
pafled ; but was not ordered to be printed and pub-
lifhed, for Reafons of State.
A Bill for Continuance of the Cuftoms and Ex-
cife was this Day read a third Time, pafled, and
ordered to be printed and publifhed.
The Circuits for the Lent Affixes, for the feveral
Counties of the Commonwealth, was ordered to be
put off, and a Proclamation publifhed, declaring the
Grounds and Reafons of it.
« Ordered, alfo, That Peter Brooke, Efq; Co!.
Holland, Henry Brooke , and Col. Charles White^ be
difcharged from their Imprifonment, and the Seque-
ftrations againft their Eftates ftopp'd. Several Per-
ibns more, by Name, who, we fuppofe, were con-
cerned in Sir George Booth's Affair, were pardoned.
February 27. Sir Thomas Middhton^ Thomas Mid*-*
dleton, Efq; his Son, with others, who were taken
on the Surrender of Cbirk-Cajlle, were alfo dif-
charged from their Imprifonment, and the Seque-
ftration of their Eftates fufpended. The feveral
Votes of Sept. 17, 1659, for the diiTolving and dif-
incorporating of the City of Ckefter, and that the
faid City and County of the fame be no diftincl: Ju-
rifdi&ion, were all vacated, and made null and void :
And an Acl was ordered to be brought in for reviving
the Jurifdi&iou of the Counties Palatine of Chefter
and Lancafter.
Laftly, A Committee was appointed to confider
who were in Prifon, and upon what Account; who
were fit to be difcharged from their Imprifonment,
and the Sequeftrations of their Eftates fufpended ; and
prefent their Opinions therein to the Parliament.
By Defire of the Council of State, Liberty was
given by the Houfe, in cafe of fpecial Exigencies
VOL. XXII. K for
146 ffle Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. for the Public Safety, to feize and fecure any Perfbrt
l659- or Perfons that they {hall have juft Ground to
*TTV""""^ fufpedl to carry on any Defigns of public Danger,
ruary' though fuch Perfons be, for the prefent, 'Members
of Parliament.
John Thompfon and John Thin-Joe, Efqrs. being
both nominated for a Secretary of State, the Houfe
divided on the Queftion, when Tkurke, who had
been Secretary to Oliver Cromwell^ was elected by *
Majority of. 65 to 38 ; in all 103 Members in the
Houfe at that Time.
A Bill for diflblving this prefent Parliament was
this Day read once, and referred back to the Com-
mittee who brought it in, to prepare a Form of a
Writ for Election of Members to fit and ferve in
Parliament, and how, and in what Manner, the new
Parliament fhould be fummoned.
Another Bill, for fettling the Militia in the fevera!
Counties of the Commonwealth, was alfo read a
firft Time. Both thefe laft Bills were ordered to be
read on the 2gth Inftant ; to which Day the Houfe
adjourned, on Account of the Thankfgiving-Day
intervening.
February 29. This Year, we find, was the Bif-
fextile, or Leap Year, by their reckoning this Day;
on which the firft Thing the Houfe did was to return
Thanks to Mr. Calamy and Mr. Mantony for their
great Pains taken the Day before in Margaret's
Church, lFeftminflery in carrying on the Work of
Thankfgiving for the Union of the Parliament, and
reftoring the Members of it to the Difcharge of their
Truft. It may be well fuppofed that thefe Preach-
ers had put the Houfe in Mind of fettling Religion
in their Sermons ; for, immediately atter, a Com-
mittee was appointed to confider of fettling of Mi-
nifters, and all Matters concerning Religion and the
Confefiion of Faith : To report their Opinion to
Parliament what they think fit to be done. . By an-
other Order of this Day, the aforsfaid Committee
Izi
Of E N G L A N D. 147
had further Power given them, to confider of fuch inter-regnum.
Minifters as are in fequeftrated Livings, and of Mi- 1659.
nifters fequeftered; and to examine the Bufinefs ^*"*' T ""'
touching fuch Minifters who have been put out of March«
their Livings in Wales ; to ftate the Matter of Fact,
and report it to the Parliament.
The Militia Bill, that for a new Parliament, and
an Act for Security to the City of London^ for fuch
Sums as they fhould advance on the prefent Occa-
fions, were all read a fecpnd Time, and committed.
March i. We now enter into that Month of the
Year 1659, which determined the End of this Par-
liament, that had fat, by Intervals, for twenty Years;
but were now under a Neceffity to diflblve them-
felves. The firft Thing we find on this Day's Pro-
ceedings, remarkable, is an Order for appointing a
Committee to confider of the State of the Revenue
of the Commonwealth j what the Charge of it is;
what Obftru6Uons hinder the Bringing-in of the Re-
venue ; how the State of the Debts ftand ; and how
the Revenue may be managed for the beft Advantage
of the Commonwealth : To report their Opinions
of all to the Parliament.
The fame Day the Queftion being put, That the
Diflblution of this Parliament fhall be on or before
the 1 5th Day of this Inftant, it was carried in the
Affirmative, without any Divifion. Col. Lambert,
on a Letter of his fent to the Council of State, was
difpenfed with for not appearing on the Proclama-
tion againft him; and, on Security given, was to be
permitted to live quietly at his own Houfe in the
Country.
March 2. The Houfe now began to fettle Rdi-
gious Matters ; a Bill was brought in, read a firft
and fecond Time, for Approbation of Minifters,
before they be admitted to any public Benefice, and
committed. The Houfe alfo agreed to that Confef-
fion of Faith* which was prefented from the Aflem-
K 2 bly
148 'The Parliamentary HISTORY-
inter- regnum. bly of Divines, by Dr. Burgefs and others, Sept. 2£,
j659« 1646, and ordered an A6t to be brought in, for de-
*"7J^T""' claring and owning that to be the public Confeffion
of Faith of the Church of England. Many Com-
jniflioners for the general Afleffment in fcveral
Counties were likewile nominated and appointed.
In the Afternoon of this Day Mr. Prynne reported
from the Committee, to whom it was referred to
confider what Votes were fit to be expunged out of
the Journals, That the Votes oijan. 27, 1647, for
difcharging Mr. Denzil Holies, and others, of the
Houfe; and Jan. 29, 1647, for accufing Mr. Holies^
and others, of HighTrealbn, ought to be expunged;
and they were ordered accordingly. Votes and Re-
folves, of Jan. 25, 1659, relating to Sir Robert Pye
and Major Fincker, upon a Paper delivered by them
to the Speaker; and the Votes of July 21, 1659,
relating to fome Reports publifh'd by Major Harley9
be declared null and void, and ordered to be obli-
terated.
A Bill for repealing two A£ts for Sequeflrations
was this Day read a third Time, and, upon the
Queftion, pafled, and ordered to be printed and pub-
lifhed.
A Bill for Security of 27,0007. advanced with
much Chearfulnefs by the City of London, for the
prefent Service of the State, was read a third Time,
and patted.
General George Monke and General Edward
Montague made joint Generals, or Admirals of the
Navy, for the next Summer's Expedition.
Laflfy, The Militia Bill was debated, fome
Amendments made to it, and the Members of the
Houfe were ordered to take fpecial Care, that, to
the beft of their Judgments, they prefent none to be
Commiffioners in this Bill, but who are Perfons
well affefted to the Caufe of the Parliament.
March 3. Colonel Thompfon reported the State
of the Account of the Monies, charged on the Af~
feffinents
Of E N G L A N D. 149
ieflhients for the Ufe of the Navy, and what hath been received
thereupon, which was read as follows :
/. s. d.
By Order of the yth of September, 1659, 60000 o o
More, by like Order, of the 29th of Offober^ 70000 o o
130000 o o
Whereof received, • ••• 80414 17 5
So there remains unpaid, — — • 49585 2 7
Memorandum. There hath been no Monies
received from the Cuftoms or Excife, between
the 23d of December, 1659, and the 1 5th of
February, 1659 > an<* befides feverai Sums for-
merly diverted, to the Value of 329507. viz.
/. j. z/.
From the EaJl-India Company, 15000 o o
From the Excife, • 595° ° O
From Mr. Noel?* Farm, — 12000 o o
32950 o o
Betides other Sums lately diverted ; which
will appear in the Exchequer.
He alfo reported an Eftimate of the Debts of the Navy,
clue to the Firft of February, 1659, as followeth :
/. f. d.
For Victuals, . - • 56000 o O
Upon Bills figned, and to be figned, for Provi- 7 2~oooo o o
iionSj \ ^
Wages to Seamen, — — 354112 O O
Wages and Salaries to the Officers of the Navy, } <4-0oo o o
694112 o o
K An
150 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An Eftimate of the Charge of fett ing forth to Sea a Fleet, to con-
Jift of Twenty Thoufand Men for eight Months Service , to end
the lajl of September, 1660, as followeth :
For Entertainment of Flag-Officers, Wages"
of Captains, other Officers and Seamen, with
Viduals for the faid Time ; the Charge of
equipping the Ships, Wear and Tear, and
Expence of Carpenters, Boatfwains, and
Gunners Stores, and maintaining them in
Warlike Manner at Sea ; with Pilotage, and
other contingent Expences, &fe. at 4/.
Man, per Menf. Medium, j
For the Ordinary of the feveral Yards and
Ships that will remain in Harbour, with ne-
ceflary Repairs of Docks, Store-houfes, and
Ships,
For Salaries of the Commiffioners for the Navy, 1
Treafurer, Auditors of Impreft, Clerks of the £ 5000 O o
Admiralty, £ffV. 3
For furnifhing the Stores, fo as they may anfwer 1
any Emergency, they being now exceedingly S- 100000
exhaufted, 3
J
140000 o o
I200O O O
O O
757000 o o
Totals, — 694112 o o
757000 o o
1451112 o o in all.
March 5. An A&, declaring the public Confeffion of Faith of
the Church of England^ was this Day read a third Time, and
ordered to be printed and publifhed. — A Proclamation ordered
out, for putting all the Laws and Statutes againft Popifh Recu-
fants, Priefts, and Jefuits, in fpeedy and effe&ual Execution. And
twenty Pounds Reward order'd, alfo, to be given by every Sheriff,
to fuch Perfon or Perfons, as {hall difcover any fuch Priefts, &c .
to be allowed in their Accounts. The fo!emn League and
Covenant once more revived, and ordered to be printed and
publifhed, fet up, and forthwith read in every Church; and that
the faid folemn League fhall be alfo pat up in the Houfe.
March
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March 6. Mr. Anne/ley reported from the Coun- inter-regnum.
cil of State, * That Yefterday Col. John Lambert^ 1659.
was called into the Council, to give Security, ac- ^— -V— -^
cording to the Order of Parliament of the Firft of ^archt
./kfo;v/.>Inftant; which being accordingly propounded
unto him by the Lord Prefident, he fpoke to this
EfTed:
' That he did acknowledge he had had the Ad-j^
vantage of a Sight of thofe Votes which pafTed thebf^re
Houfe concerning him, and did look upon them as e*
a very great Favour and Juftice from the Houfe,
that they would pleafe to take Notice fo far, as to
remove that Inconvenience that was both upon his
Perfon and his Eftate : And faicl, He muft needs
deal freely and plainly ; that he did caft himfelf up-
on the Parliament, and now upon the Council, in
Hopes of a further Teftimony of their Favour, than
upon thofe Votes. He faid, He did not at all think
it amifs, that there fhould be all Care taken to pre-
ierve the Peace of thefe Nations ; for he had him-
felf, when he was in that Station, held it his Duty to
do fo : That, whatever may be fuggefted againft
him, he hath his own Satisfaction within him :
Whatever Reports may be concerning him, he con-
ceives they do not extend towards him ; for as to
Reports, he cannot be fafe either here or at his
Houfe, if all Reports may be taken for Truth. He
faid, That, for his own Part, he could hardly fay,
fmce he laft came to Town, and more efpecially
within fewer Days fmce, that he hath not faid any
thing, nor meddled in any thing, that might tend to
hinder Settlement ; but, on the contrary, as he had
Opportunity to converfe with any, he contributed in
his Difcoufe towards Settlement, and no otherwife.
He faid, He did exercife Plainnefs, and hoped not to
fare the worfe for it : That he had a long Time
contended for a due and moderate Liberty for the
People of thefe Nations; and he muft needs fay,
that he did not know how to put a Difference be-
twixt himfelf and the good People of thefe Nations.
He deflred his Cafe might be truly and fully known,
before fuch a Diftin&ion be made, to put a Mark or
Cha-
152 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter- regnum. Character upon him. He faid, That common Li -
l6S9- berty had, Day after Day, been granted unto others,
^•*T7v~r but not to him. He did freely ca.fi. himfelf upon the
Ingenuity of the Parliament and Council.'
* Having ended his Difcourfe, the Lord Prefident
defired his Anfwer, as to what Security he would
give. To which he replied, ' It was not fit for him
to argue : That he underftood the Council were
under Command from the Parliament j and he did
not yet know whether his Cafe was well ftated to the
Parliament. 1 Jhall clearly, however, fubmit to what
you do : That he knew not what kind of Security
the Council did intend : That giving Security in
this Kind, was very ftrange unto him.' Hereupon
he withdrew.
* That the Council, after Confideration of what
Col. Lambert had faid, came to this Refolution : To
propofe unto him to enter into a Bond of twenty
thoufand Pounds, with four good Securities, upon
Condition to live peaceably at his Houfe at Wim-
lleton, and not to act any thing to the Prejudice of
the Government, or Difturbance of the Public
Peace ; and not to remove from Wimtteton without
Leave of the Parliament, or Council of State ; and
to render himfelf, upon Summons from the Parlia-
ment, or Council of State. And this Bond to con-
tinue in Force till the Parliament or Council give
further Order to the contrary.
* Hereupon Col. Lambert was called in again,
and the Refolution of the Council made known unto
him, by the Lord Prefident. And he, defiring
Leave to fpeak a few Words, fpoke to this Effect :
* That he defired to take the Freedom to fay,
That it was fevere on his Part : That he had met
To-day with an Ordinance of Parliament of In-
demnity to many Perfons, who have had their
Hands in feveral Actions of higher Nature than
himfelf had. He found them all indemnified, and
reftored to the fame Condition which formerly they
had been in. He' faid, He would not fay, That that
Ordinance did reach as to his Perfon ; it is not clear
Whether it doth fo or no. He faid, He was unwil-
ling
Of E N G L AND: 153.
Kn£ to give it under his Hand that he deferred not Intcr-regnu
to t>e put into the Condition with others ; and tho*
there have been . among ourfelves Differences of
Judgment, Ways, and Forms ; yet, as to the main
Point, he faid,' he could not be taxed in the leaft
Kind : That he finds himfelf .there equally fo with
the greateft Offender : That he did caft hirnfelf upon
the Council, to difpofe of him as they thought fit.'1
And then he withdrew.
' And the Council thereupon refolved to call in
Col. Lambert once more, and pofitively to demand
of him, Whether he would give Security, as was laft
propounded unto him.
4 Whereupon he was called in, and accordingly
the Lord Prefident acquainted him with the Reio-
lution of the Council : To which He replied, ' He
did believe that he could not procure the Security
propofed : That he did not hear of a Fault affigned
to him ; therefore he delired Leave to petition the
Houfe ; adding, That, if he be found an Offender,
he will fubmit; if none, he befeeches it may be
confidered : That he is not willing to give it under'
his Hand that he is an Offender, tho' he freely fub-
mits to the Parliament's Pleafure : But, being un-
heard, uncharged, and untaxed, to write it under
his Hand that he is a guilty Perfon, not fit to be
trufted in his own Country without a Clog and
Tie upon him, he knows not what to fay to it j but
he fhall fubmit.'
' Being preffed again, Whether he would give
that Security propounded, he faid, He believed he
could not do it ; twenty thoufand Pounds being a
Sum that he believes he cannot get Sureties for.
« Hereupon, after he was withdrawn, it was or-
dered, That he be forthwith committed to the
Tower till further Order, for refuting to give Secu-
rity, according to the Order of Parliament ; but in-
flead of that, (landing to juftify his Innocency; and
that a Warrant be prepared accordingly.'
The fame Day the humble Petition of John Lam-
l.ert) Major-General, being read, it was refolved,
That
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Inter-regnum, That the Parliament <loth approve of what the
l659- Council of State have done, in committing of Col.
•^'jJJJJ"1' John Lambert to the Tower.
The aforefaid Mr. Annejley alfo reported, from
the Council of State, That Sir Arthur Hafilrigge
having the Command of a Regiment of Horfe, and
alfo a Commiflion to be Governor of Berwick, Car-
lifle, and Tinmouth, three confiderable Garrifons
in the North of England, that they do find his Name
mentioned in fome Information fent to the Council ;
Sir Arthur was ordered to attend the Houfe the next
Morning. The faid Council was enjoined to tak&
fpecial Care of the Safety and Peace of the Nation,
and to proceed vigoroufly in fecuring fuch Perfons
as they ihould think dangerous to the State.
March 7. Mr. Annejley gave into the Houfe the
feveral Informations taken by the Council of State
againft Sir Arthur Hafilrigge j and he, ftanding up
in his Place, faid, He was not guilty of any Thing
wherewith he was charged. The Houfe ordered
the whole of this Matter to be referred back to the
Council of State, to examine it further, and report
it to the Parliament.
The Time for the Diflblution of this Parliament
being now near at Hand, the Houfe agreed to pro-
ceed only with Matters of Religion, the Militia,
the Qualifications, and the Writs of Summons.
March 8. Accordingly, we find that, this Day,
a Bill for calling and holding a new Parliament, to
fit at Wejlminjier the 2fth Day of April, 1660,
was brought in, read a firft Time, and ordered a
fecond Reading on the next. Many Commiffionjsrs
for the Militia were alfo named to ferve for feveral
Counties in England.
March 9. The A£t for calling and holding a new
Parliament was read a fecond Time and committed;
but the Queftion being put, That this Bill be com-
mitted to a Qrand Committee of the whole Houfe,
it paffcd in the Negative, 84 againft 66.
March
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March 12. The Houfe went upon nothing, for Inter-regnum.
feme Days, but fettling the Militia-Bill ; and, on
this, the whole being perfe&ed, it paffed, and was
ordered to be printed and publifhed forthwith. Se-
veral Sheriffs for Counties were alfo nominated to
ferve for the Year enfuing.
March 13. This Day the Houfe refolveo*, That
the Engagement, appointed to be taken by Mem-
bers of Parliament and others, in thefe Words, w'z.
/ do declare and promife^ That 1 will be true and
faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as thf
fame is now eftablifoed^ without a King or Houfe of
Lords, be difcharged and taken off the File : Alfo,
That all Orders, enjoining the taking of the faid
Engagement, be, and are hereby, vacated and ex-
punged out of the Journal-Book of Parliament. Mr.
Prynne^ Serjeant Maynard^ and Col. Harley, were
ordered to fee it done accordingly.
Ordered, * That it be referred to a Committee
to confider what had been done in this Houfe con-
cerning the Lords Houfe, to ftate the Matter of Fa&,
and report it to the Parliament the next Morning.*
March 14. Mr. Annejley reported, from the Coun-
cil of State, That the Council having given Direc-
tions for the fecuring of Major Creed., in order to
public Safety ; and being informed by a Letter, this
Night read, That he was withdrawn from his Houfe,
and, by the likelieft Conjecture, come up to London^
having been feen, not many Days before, upon the
Road as far as Stony-Stratford: And that, having
caufed Inquiry to be made after Col. Cobbet and Col.
Jljhfield^ they received an Account that their Places
of Abode could not be heard of: Which three are of
the Number of thofe Officers, who, by Order of
Parliament, were confined to their Dwellings moft
remote from London : And that the Houfe be hum-
bly moved to declare their Pleafure, what further
Proceedings the Council (hall make in thefe, or other
Cafes of the like Nature.
Sere-
156 tte Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regmvm. Hereupon it was refolved, ' That the Council of
l659- State be, and are hereby, authorized to iflue forth
fc~'"V7"J Proclamations, at any Time, untill the firft Sitting
of the next Parliament, againft fuch Perfons as they
fliall find dangerous to the Peace and Safety of the
Commonwealth, who abfent themfelves from their
Dwellings and Places of their Habitations, to fum-
jmon them to appear before them, at a certain Day,
under fuch Penalties as the Cafe fhall require, and
as the Council of State fhall think fit, to anfwer
ftich Matters as (hall be objected againft them by
the Council of State.
Refolved, * That this be added an Instruction to
the Council of State/
A Bill for reviving the Court of the Duchy-
Chamber of Lancajler was read a third Time, and
pafled. Sir Gilbert Gerrard was voted Chancellor
of the Duchy-Court of Lancajler ^ and Nicholas Lech-
mere, Efqj Attorney of the fame.
Another Bill, for reftoring William Lenthall, Efq;
Speaker of the Parliament, to the Chamberlainfhip
of Chejier, was alfo pafled.
Serjeant Waller, Serjeant Evan Seys, William
Jones, William Foxwith, "John Corbett, Bennet Ho-
Jkinsy Thomas Manly, and John Raddiffe, Efqrs.
were appointed Judges for the feveral Diftricts in
Wales.
March 15. An engrofled Bill for fettling Lands
on his Excellency the Lord- General Monke, and his
Heirs, was this Day read a third Time ; and the
Queftion being put, That this Bill pafs as a Law,
It was carried in the Negative, 44 againft 37 : But
at the fame Time it was refolved, ' That the Sum,
of 20,000 /. be conferred on his Excellency the
Lord-General ; and that the fame be charged upon
the Receipts of the public Exchequer.'
An Act, enabling to fue Bonds and Securities,
taken in the Name of Oliver Lord Protector, and
Richard Lord Protector, was brought in, read a firft
and fqcond Time, pafled, and ordered to be printed
and
Of ENGLAND. 157
and publifhed : As was alfo an A£t for bringing in inter-regmmt.
the Rents and Revenues of Delinquents and ropifh
Recufants Eftates.
In the Afternoon of the fame Day Mr. Annejley
reported, from the Council of State, an Aft for gi-
ving Power to the faid Council to a£t during the In-
terval of Parliament, in order to public Safety.
Some Amendments were made to it ; and, being
put to the Queftion, it pafled.
An Aft for imprefling of Seamen, to continue till
June 24, 1660, was pafled: Alfo another for re-
moving Obftruftions in bringing in the Afleflments.
Mr. Annejley reported a Letter from Col. Lambert ,
defiring to know the Council's Pleafure concerning
his Reftraint, and offering to give Security, in as
much as he was able to procure. That the Council
of State humbly moved to know the Pleafure of the
Parliament, how they fliould a£t in that Cafe : On
which it was refolved, ' That Power be given to
the faid Council to difcharge Col. Lambert from his
Imprifonment, on his Parole, or Security, as they
fhould fee Caufe.' Refolved, alfo, « That Dr. Wren
be releafed from his Imprifonment, and the Lieute-
nant of the Tower ordered to difcharge him : That
Power be given to the Council of State to difcharge
any other Perfon or Perfons imprifoned upon any
Crime committed againft the State.
March 16. The Bill for conferring 20,000 /. on
Captain-General Monke^ for his fignal Services, was
read twice; but, on the third Reading of it, tne
Word fignal was changed for eminent, and then the
Bill pafled. The General was alfo conftituted, by
the Parliament, Steward of the Honour and Manor
of Hampton-Court , and Keeper of the Houfe and
Parks there ; with all the Rights and Privileges to
the faid Stewardfhip belonging, in as ample a Man-
ner as any Steward of the fame had heretofore en-
jeyed.
Some Amendments were offered to the Bill for
re-fettling Incumbents in fequeftered Livings ; a
Provifo of which was, ' That if any Miniffer or
Mini-
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inter- regnum. Minifters have been formerly ejected or fequeftered,
1659. whofe Conversation and Lives have been and are
*•—• v—*-' blamelefs, and they found in Doctrine, fhall be
March. capable to be prefented to any Living in the Church
of England, fo as fuch Miniftcr do officiate accord-
ing to the Directory elrabltfhed, and not otherwife.'
Refolved, alfo, < That all Ads and Ordinances,
made for the Payment of Tythes, be revived and
ftand in full Force. The A£t, fo amended, being
put to the Queftion, pafied ; and was ordered to be
printed and publifhed, with this Title, An 'Aft for
Minijiers and Payment of Tythes.
A Letter from General Mcnke, dated St. James's,
March 1 6, 1659, was read ; after which the Houfe
ordered three Gentlemen, viz. Air. Morris, Mr. An-
•nejley, and Mr. Holies, to wait upon the General,
and give him Satisfaction : Who, returning foon
after, reported, That the General, on his reading
the Claufes in the Militia A 61, refied well fatisfied.
IVbitlocke remarks, ' That this Interpofition of
Monkes, in an Aft of Parliament, was thought, by
fome, too high.'
An A& for taking the Accounts, and redrelfing
of Grievances, concerning Tythes and Church-Li-
vings in Wales, and for Advancement of Religion
and Learning there, was read a third Time, and
pafled.
The Act for Diflblution of this prefent Parlia-
ment was ordered to be read the nrft Bufinefs in the
Afternoon, and nothing to intervene. Accordingly
A Bill, engrofled, for diflblving the Parliament
begun and holden at Weftmlnjler, the third Day of
November, 1640, and for the calling and holding
of a Parliament at Wejlminfter on the 25th Day
of April, 1660, was read a third Time, and the
following Provifo was tendered : ' That the fingle
Actings of this Houfe, enforced by the prefling Ne-
ceflities of the prefent Times, are not intended, in
the leaft, to infringe, much lefs take away, that
antient native Right which the Houfe of Peers,
confifting of thofe Lords who did engage in the
Caufe of the Parliament againft the Forces raifed in
the
Of ENGLAND. 159
the Name of the late King, and fo continued to the Inter-regnum,
Year 1648, had and have to be a Part of the Par- I6 59;
liament of England.1 Which Provifo, being read vi^T
twice, was agreed to be Part of the Bill. Refolved,
alfo, ' That the Day for the Diflblution of the Par-
liament (hall be from this Day, March 16, 1659.'
Then the Bill, fo amended, being put to the Que-
ftion, patted, and was ordered to be printed and
published.
La/l/y, It was refolved, f That Friday the 6th
Day of April next be fet apart for a Day of public
Fafting and Humiliation, to be folemnized through-
out the Nation, under the Senfe of the great and
manifold Sins and Provocations thereof; and to feek
the Lord for his Bleffing upon the Parliament, now
fhortly to be aflembled, that the Lord will make
them Healers of our Breaches, and Inftruments to
reftore and fettle Peace and Government in the Na-
tions, upon Foundations of Truth and Righteouf-
nefs.'
We have now drawn down our Hiftory of this
Parliament through a long Series of Years ; being
called, by the King's Writ, to fit on the third Day
of November •, 1640, and difTolved by themfelves*,
March 16, 1659; a Courfe of near twenty Years
Duration. The Changes and devolutions it dif-
fered, during this long Period, thefte can be no Oc-
cafion to recapitulate here, fmce they are all di-
ftinctly given, annually, monthly, and diurnally, in
the Courfe of this Work, and may be found in their
proper Places. But as there yet remains a fmall
Space of Time, taken laft from the journals, as
above, and unexplained by the contemporary Hifto-
nans, as hath been hitherto our Cuftom, we mail
ftrft give their Sentiments on thofe Occurrences, and
then fill up the Vacancy between the Diflblution of
the laft, and the Beginning of the next Parliament,
from the fame Authorities.
Mr. Ludlow, whofe Zeal for the Republican
Caufe now carries him a great Way, is not fparing
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Inter-regnum; in his Inve&ives againft Monke, for deferring that
l6S9; Intereft which had raifed him to the Power he then
t»-~ -V^ *^ enjoyed. But, when we confider that Gentleman's
Marcn. Memoirs were wrote after the Reftoration, when he
imarted with the Refentment of a true Britijb Par-
liament, we may reafonably think him too partial to
his Caufe : For Edmund Ludlow* Efq; having been
profcribed a Traitor, and forced to leaye the Land,
to avoid an ignominious Death, for fitting and aft-
ing as one of the King's Judges, and figning the
Bloody Warrant, retired into Switzerland^ where
he wrote hi* Memoirs, as abovefaid. However, to
do Juftice to both Sides of the Queftion, and pre-
ferve that Impartiality hitherto ftrictly followed in
thefe Enquiries, we fhall firft give the.Senfe of what
Mr. Ludlow and IVhitlvcke has left us, concerning
thefe Times, and then the oppofite Writer, Dr,
Price's Account of the very fame Proceedings.
Indian?* Ac- To begin from where we left Mr. Ludlow jaft :
count of thefe He tells us, * That Monke being lodged in the City,
Tunes. ^Q refolved to make him a Vifit, if poiTible, to learn
his Intentions in regard to the Parliament. The
Subjedt of this Converfation between them is fome-
what foreign to our Purpofe ; fufficient it is to fay,
That our Author came away frem the General as
wife as he went : but to {hew how fufpicious they
were of each oMer, he adds, That, on' his taking
Leave, he took Notice one of Monke 's Footmen
ftood at the Door of the Room where they had been
difcourfing, placed there, he fuppofed, by his Ma-
fter's Order, to prevent him from dealing with
Monke , as his Confcience told him he deierved.
But, notwithftanding the outward Shew of Re-
fpe& and Civility our Author had received at this
Vifit, he tells us, he could fee through all Mcnke's
Difguifes, and that he was not fleering to the Har-
bour he pretended ; and could he, Ludlow, but have
prevailed with the Majority of theParliament to be of
the fame Opinion with himfelf, Monke fhould not
have carried on his Defign fo fmoorhly. But into
fuch a defperate Frenzy were they then fallen, that
many
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many in the Houfe, either thro' Fear, or what other Tnter-regnum.
Reafon he could not tel), difcovered themfelves l659-
daily to be Favourers of Monke, who, by this Time, *•— ""^ ' "^
had fo far advanced his Affairs, as to pull off another *
Maik, and introduce the fecluded Members into the
Houfe.
In order to bring about this nice Affair, the fame
Author tells us, That Monke pretended it was only
to give the fecluded Members Satisfaction touching
their Exclufion from the Houfe, with which he de-
clared himfelf thoroughly convinced j and to that
End, fome fitting Members of the Houfe were defi-
red to meet their former Brethren at a Conference.
But this produced nothing but Difputes and Quar-
rels between them, the latter reflecting very inde-
cently on the other's Proceedings, fince they were
excluded ; fo that both Sides parted in no good Hu-
mour with one another.
About this Time, as our Memorialift tells us,
came a Letter from Ireland to the Parliament, the
Contents of which were ftill more infolent than the
Letter Monke had fent to them, before he retired
into the City : For, after they had reproached them
with extending their Favours to Men accufed of
High Treafon, and the Difcouragements they laid
upon thofe who had been fent to England to profe-
cute them, they openly told the Parliament they
could no longer own their Authority ; and therefore
defired, That a new Parliament might be called, to
put an End to the Confufions which their Mifcar-
riages had brought upon the Nation.
In the mean while Monke had defired the Mayor
of London to affemble the Common Council, though
the Parliament had diflblved them ; and, in Defi-
ance of their Authority, fays our Author, attended
on them in Perfon at Guildhall. He there excufed
himfelf for what he had been conftrained to, he faid,
by Order of the Council of State ; and allured them
he was much troubled at that rigorous Service. He
declared himfelf ready to expofe his Perfon to all
Dangers for their Sakes, and that he had not forgot
the kind Letter they had fent him whilft he was yet
VOL. XXII. I, in
1 62 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Jnter-regnum, in the North : That he was then of the fame Opi-
1659- nion with themfelves, but was obliged, at that Time,
t— -v— J to conceal it, till he might have an Opportunity to
March. ^iftover his Sentiments with better Advantage.
Lajlly^ he acquainted them, That he had fent a
'Letter to the Parliament to fill up their Houfe, and
put an End to their Sitting by the 6th of May next.
This Speech of the General's, our Memorialift
fays, greatly encouraged the Cavalier Party in the
City, infomuch that a Rabble of them cried out for
A Free Parliament, as he paffed by from Guildhall \
and perceiving him not to be difpleaied with their In-
folence, they made Bonfires in London and IVejlmin-
jler for roafting the Rump; which, adds our Autho-
rity, they prefumed to call that Parliament, which, in
the five Years Time that they governed without In-
terruption, had raifed the Glory of the Nation from
the Duft wherein it had been buried, by the Negli-
gence and Corruption of the preceding Govern-
ments, and had rendered the Englifo Name formi-
dable to all Europe.
He next tells us, That the fecluded Members
were now grown very confident of attaining their
Ends ; which the fitting Men forefeeing, caft about
to prevent them, by iiluing out Writs for filling
up the Parliament by new Elections. Whereupon
the Speaker was ordered to fign a Warrant to au-
thorize the Commiflioners of the Great Seal to
fend out Writs according to Cuftom : But he refu-
fed to do it, pretending, That if he (hould fign any
Warrant for that Purpofe, he might be fued at Law
by every individual Perfon, in whofe Room any
other {hould be elected ; and therefore defired that
the Hou<e would pafs an Act: to enable their Clerk
to fign the Warrant ; or that the Commiffioners of
the Great Seal might ifTue out their Writs of Sum-
mons upon a general Acl to be pafled for that End.
It was anfwered, That the Duty of his Place obli-
ged him to perform the Commands of the Houfe ;
that having received their Order in this Affair, he
\vas thereby fully indemnified j and that he figned
not
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not the Warrant in his perfonal, but in his politic Inter-regnum,
Capacity. But the Speaker continued pofitive in *659'
his Refufal, fubmitting himfelf to the Pleafure of the U-TIVT^-^
Houfe, if they fhould think fit to fend him to the
Tower, and chufe another Perfon to be Speaker in
his Place. Whereupon, our Author informs us,
the Houfe condefcended to pafs an Ac~l to impower
the Clerk to fign the Warrant to the Commiffioners
of the Seal ; though, for his own Part, he was for
taking the Speaker at his Word; but inftead of fend-
ing him to the Tower, he was for placing another
Perfon in the Chair, and adjourning themfelves to
the Tower ; but, he adds, he could prevail with very
few to be of his Opinion.
Notwithstanding the Condefcention of the Parlia-
ment about filling up their Houfe, Things continued
in great Diforder and Confufion amongft themfelves.
The Council of State received Advice, late one
Night, That the fecluded Members intended to
force themfelves into the Houfe the next Morning ;
on which, they fent a Meflage to Monke to acquaint
him of it, and required him to prevent it if it fhould
be attempted. He returned for Anfwer, to the
Council, ' That he was well afTured no fuch Thing
was defigned ; but, for their Satisfaction, and to
hinder it, if endeavoured, he would not fail to double
the Guards which were to attend the Parliament.
But for all this the fecluded Members, attended by
divers of Monke' s Officers, went early the next
Morning to Wejlminjler, and were admitted into
the Houfe by the Guards he had placed there, who
were more ready to defend than prevent them.
Thus, adds, our Author, Monke having violated his
Promifes, and abufed the Trufl repofed in him by
the Public, took up his Quarters again at Whitehall*
the fame Morning the other Affair happened in the
Houfe.
At this Time it was that Mr. Ludlow's fcrupu-
lous Confcience, in Regard to Politics, made him
quit his Seat in Parliament; for, he tells us, he was
refolved to give no Countenance to the fecluded
Members, by fitting with them who had no Right
L 2 to
164 2T&* Parliamentary HISTORY
Intcr-regnum/ to any Place in Parliament, having been expelled the
l659- Houfe by more than a Quorum of lawful Members.
L. *\— «j From this Time, theiefore, we fhall leave this Au-
Marcb. ^or ^ ^^ though he carries on his Memoirs to the
calling home of the King in this Volume, and, in a
fubfequent one, much further, yet, flying his Coun-
try from Juftice into Switzerland, he could have
little Knowledge of Parliamentary Affairs in Eng-
land, but what weretranfmitted to him, from hence,
by Men as partial as himfelf. Befides, his third
Volume is fo Huffed with perfonal Invectives againft
the King and his Minifters, (the former of which
he does not ftick to brand with the Imputation of
committing Inceft with his own Sifter n) that here
we think fit to leave him, and all that Rancour and
Malice againft the Royal Family, which is plenti-
fully (hewn in this third and laft Volume of his Me-
moirs
Mr, mithckt. The other Memorialift, Wbitlnke, has little in
him, at this Time, but bare Accounts of Proceed-
ings, which are much better given from the Jour'
rials themfelves, being very fparing in his Reflections
on Perfons and Things j his own precarious Situa-
tion then requiring him to be very circumfpecl and
wary, in what he wrote and faid. He feems, how-
ever, much concerned at the Doublings and Chan-
gings of the Times, and fears that the choice Oates,
he and his Sect had been devouring for twelve
Years together, would be for ever taken from them.
He apprehended the coming in of the King, from,
the Time the fecluded Members were admitted to
fit again ; and fays, That though Hafilrigge^ Nt'
2//V, Scott? and Robinfon, did all they could with
Monke to prevent it, yet neither they, nor any of
their Party, could prevail with him to forbid their
Admiffion; the Spirit of the People in general,
efpecially
n The Duehefs of Orleans, who, our Author fays, was fafpefted,
by her Hufband, for a too great Familiarity with her Brother, after
her Return from a Vifit Ihe had made him in England* and therefore
he poifoned her in a Glafe of L«noj»dc, •— — =- LnHwft
Vcl, III, g, *z7.
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cfpecially of the Prefbyterians, running that Way ; inter-regnu:
and the Cavaliers agreeing to it as a Step to bring 1659-
in their King. ^M^T*
In order to pave the Way towards fuch a Defign,
our Author goes on to tell us, That, on the Ad-
miffion of the fecluded Members, feveral former
Votes were vacated, particularly thofe patted in
1648 and 1649, by which they were excluded the
Houfe. Then, to pleafe their Patron, they voted
Monke to be Captain- General of all the Forces in
England, Scotland, and Ireland, and joined him in
Commiffion with Montague to be Commanders in
Chief of the Fleet ; both fit, adds he, for the in-
tended Work. The Militia was next to be re-
gulated by a new Bill, and fuch Perfons nominated,
throughout all England, for Commiflioners, as were
to be confided in. Many Cavaliers, Delinquents
to the late Times, were difcharged out of Prifon :
And, laftly, the Engagement, * To be true and
faithful to the Commonwealth, without a King or
Houfe of Lords,' was voted to be difcharged, and
all Orders for taking of it expunged. After all this,
the Parliament having patted a Bill for calling a
new Parliament, and another for giving full Powers
to the Council of State, in the Interval they diflbl-
ved themfelves, every one departing on their own
particular Occafions.
We come next to a Writer of a different Com- Dr, Price*
plexion from either of the former, who, as hath
been faid, being Domeftic Chaplain to the General,
and his chief Confident, muft certainly be beft ac-
quainted with his Defigns ; and, if impartially rela-
ted, may be well fuppofed the beft Authority. To
begin, then, where we laft left off with this Author,
we (hall alfo here give his Senfe and Reafoning on
thefe Proceedings in his own Words :
' The Parliament and Council of State, upon the
firft Revolt ofMonke, and retiring to the City with his
Army, eafily faw what they were to truft to ; how-
ever they ftill courted his Return : But, not trufting
L 3 to
1 66 'The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum, to the Charms of Words to allure him, they diftri-
buted thofe Arms to Anabaptifts and Fifth -Mo-
narchy-Men, and employed Agitators in their Army
(now by Monkeys fuccefsful Artifice difperfed in
Country Quarters) to whifper his Treafon againft
the Parliament, and to give out openly, that Charles
Stuart was like to come in.
4 Sir Arthur Hafilrigge was tax'd, by the General,
as the Promoter of this ill Office, but he had not
the Courage to own it ; or, though as good a Ge-
neral as himfelf, to rendezvous his Country Army
againft Monke's in the City. But it was God's
Time.
c For now the fecluded Members of 1648, who,
in the Houfe of Commons, had refufed to ferve the
Army's Defign of the total Subverfion of Monarchy
in the Royal Line, began to appear ; and that not
•without fome fecret Encouragement neither. The
General had before moved it, by fome of his Con-
fidents ; and he looked upon it as the eafieft and
fafeft Change he could make on the fudden, and moil
confiftent with his Declaration in Scotland,
' Thefe Gentlemen (the General now being at
Drapers- Hall) infift upon their Re-admiffion, but
with Modefty and Prudence, becoming their Condi-
tion ; for they were then much oppofed by the Zea-
lots of Oligarchy, who loved their Room better than
their Company. Thefe urged Monke's Declaration,
when he firft appeared for them againft the Army,
that he was for the Parliament, as it fat the nth of
Oflober: The Secluded Reply, That their Re-admif-
fion was no Infringement of it ; for the fame Parli-
ament would fit ftill ; adding, further, that the Pur-
port of that Declaration was to reduce the Military
Power in Obedience to the Civil ; and that they
had been fecluded from the Houfe only by Force of
the Sword ; they having no more forfeited their
Right of fitting there, than had the other : It was
faid that, in Law, neither had any.
c Thefe were the Occurrences of the more pub-
lic Remark, for about a Week ; at the End of which
the General thought it not fafe to hold his Defign any
longer
Of E N G L A N D. 167
longer in Sufpence, for the Army in feveral Parts of inter-regnum.
the Country began to grow mutinous, and fome of i659-
our Officers to exprefs their Fears : Wherefore he *— ~"-~ ' — '
convened a feleft Number of both Parties, to debate
upon the Affair, feveral of his own Officers being
prefent. The fitting Members had nothing to alledge
(befides their Love of Power) but their own Safety
and the Army's, the Confciences of the GodJy, and
the Sale of publicLancls; all which, they feared,
would be difturbed by the Introduction of the feclu-
ded Members : But they gave fatisfa&ory Anfwers to
all theie Objections, and engaged upon their Parole
(over and above) that they would not look upon what
had been done fmce their Seclufion, nor difturb the
Property or Pretences of any j but would amicably
fit and adl for the Good of their Country, till, by
their Diflblution, they made Way for another Par-
liament. This now was fo fair a Propofition, that
noEngli/bman, who had any Senfe of theDiftraclions
of thefe Nations, and Love to the Commonwealth,
could any way except againft it : Befides that, all
their Returns were managed with fuch Modefty of
Words and Behaviour, that our Officers foon enter-
tained a very good Opinion of the Secluded ; nay,
and many even of the fitting Members themfelves,
that were there prefent, exprefied a Difpofition to
give Way to their Re-admiffion; only they could
not give their Votes for it but in the Houfe. Thus
ended the Conference ; and, in the Clofe of it, one
or two of our Officers (more difcerning, or more
bufy, than the reft) moved that the Government
might be declared to be by a Commonwealth, and a
further Security devifed for the Sale of the public
Lands. This pinched ; but it was artificially fhuffled
off by fuggefting, That the Writs, to be hTued out
for the next Parliament, muft neceffarily run in the
Name and Stile of the Keepers of the Liberties of
the Commonwealth of England ; and that the State
of public Lands was already as fecure as the Govern-
ment could make it.
' The Men at Wejlmlnjler^ underftanding that
the fecluded Members were like to keep. Houfe with
them
1 68 ffie Parliamentary HISTORY
Intcr-regnum. them again, began to be very froward upon it, as if
16591 theyfliould not have Elbow- Room enough ; yet they
** ^"7"^ durft not remonftrate againft it, becaufe they could
not get the crafty General (who was now judged
capable, with a little Help, of giving Check to the
Army) out of his Hole in the City : Befide, that
the popular Cry ran for a full and free Parliament,
this Rump in the laft Week's Debate, touching
Qualifications for Members to ferve in the enfuing
Parliament, having alfo exafperated and incenfed
the People, by voting, as if none were fit to ferve
in that Capacity for the future, who had not con-
tracted equal Guilt with themfelves. Now, to ob-
viate Monkis Defign to reftore the fecluded Mem-
bers, fome of them fell to offering a fpeedy Refig-
nation of their own Power ; giving out, that, within
a few Days, they would difpatch the Qualifications
before them for the next Parliament; for they
thought it not fit to refign up their Authority to
thofe who would cut their Throats : But they found
it to be too late for this Pin to be driven forward ;
for the General having gained, in Appearance at
leaft, the Confent of his Officers, for the refift-
ing of the fecluded Members, upon certain Condi-
tions, they, all of them that were in and about the
Town, were fent for, and the Articles of their Re-
admiffion, which were thefe following, read to them.
1. * To fettle the Command of the Armies in
the Three Nations, as might beft fecure the com-
mon Peace and Safety of them.
2. ' To raife a Tax for the Payment of the Ar-
rears of the Army and Navy ; and what further Sup-
plies mould be found neceflary for the Support of the
Forces and Government of the Commonwealth.
3. * To iflue forth Writs for a Parliament, to fit
at Weftminjler the 2Oth of April then next enfu-
ing ; and to conftitute a Council of State to fee this
done.
4. « To confent to their own Diflblution, by a
Time that fhould be limited unto them.
* To which, with Chearfulnefs, they agreed and
fubfcribed ; and, before they left the Place, in Con-
fidence
Of E N G L A N D. 169
fidence that Monke was a true Patriot, promifed to [nter-regn
make him Commander in Chief, both by Sea and 1659.
Land. Thus they went away, rejoicing that they *— -v^
(hould be accounted worthy to be the Reftorers of Marcii
their Country's Freedom.
' So on Tuefday, February 21, thefe Gentlemen
met the General at Whitehall ; for to that End only
he returned thither. He fpoke fome few Words to
them, reminding them chiefly of their Promifes to
him, and affuring them that he would not impofe
any new Thing upon them ; and he was as good as
his Word. That Morning they were conducted by
Adjutant Miller, to take their former Places in
the Houfe of Commons; which, as foon as they
entered, fome of the fitting Members arofe in a
Heat, and 'left the Houfe. Hafilrigge and others
openly cried out (but too late) That Monke was a
Traitor ; but Hafilrigge met with no other Punifli-
ment afterward for his Treafon, than his own na-
tive Rage and Fury.'
The fame Author goes on and tells us, e That
fome of the Peers, who had formerly agreed with
the Commons, in drawing the Sword againft their
King, watched the Re-admiffion of the fecluded
Members, and would have entered their own Houfe
at the fame Time ; but the General, having Intima-
tion of their Defign before-hand, commanded Miller
to withftand them ; which the furly Officer obeyed,
though he was threatened by fome of the Lords for
doing it.
' The General now quitted the City, and came to
Whitehall, and was foon after, fays theDo&or, ftiled
His Excellency, Captain-General of alt the Forces of
the Commonwealth by Sea and Land : Though, in the
former, Montague was joined in Authority with
him, which was a Breach of Promife; but he had
Work enough to do at Land, and Ambition, adds
he, was not his Aim.
* Letters were immediately difpatched away by
the General, to the CommandingOfficers \nScotland
and Ireland, and to feveral others in the Garrifons
and Stations in England-, in which was fignified the
Ne-
170 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. Neceffity of acting what had been done in order to
l659" preferve and inlarge the Intereft of the Common-
Mud) wealth. And the fecluded Members, now coming
from all Parts of the Kingdom, foon fwallowed up
the Rump, and left it, fays he, as a bare Bone.'
The laft Inftrument we find in the Collection fo
often mentioned, is a Copy of this very fmgular
Letter, mentioned in the laft Paragraph from Dr.
Price's Memoirs, which we fhall alfo add to the reft,
in its own Words, without any Comment.
A LETTER from the Lord-General MONKE, and the
Officers here, to the feveral and refpeftive Regi-
ments^ and other Forces, in England, Scotland,
and Ireland,
Dear Brethren and Fellow Soldiers,
c "X^ O U cannot be ignorant of the many Endea-
* j[ vours, and earned Defires, of many good
* Men in thefe Nations, to bring us to a Settlement;
* which it hath pleafed God to dtfappoint unto this
* Day, and leave us as a broken and divided People,
* ready to run into Blood and Confufion ; which
* that we might prevent fo great Calamities impend-
* ing, after our earneft feeking God for his Direc-
* tion and Afliftance, we find no Expedient fo likely
* for the Satisfa6tion of the good People, and the
* Quiet and Welfare of this Commonwealth, as the
* Re-admifTion of the fecluded Members, in order
* to a legal Difiblution of this Parliament by their
' own free Confents ; and to iflue Writs for a future
* full Reprefentative of the whole Commonwealth
4 of England, Scotland, and Ireland, under fuch Qua-
* lifications as may fecure our Caufe, to convene on
* the 2Cth of April next at Weftmlnfter, for the efta-
* blifhing this Commonwealth upon the Foundations
' of Juftice and true Freedom. And, to take away
6 alljuft Jealoufies from you, we do aflure you, that
* we mail join with you in the Maintenance ofthofe
« Ends exprefled in the inclofeda, and do expect your
* chearful Concurrence with us. And we defire to
< take
a This was his Speech at the re-admitting the fedudsd Memlcre.
Of E N G L A N D. 171
c take God to witnefs, that we have no Intentions Infer- regnusu
< orPurpofesto return to our old Bondage; but fince l6S9- .
* the Providence of God hath made us free at the ^«7V7 ^
< Coft of fo much Blood, we hope we fhall never be
< found fo unfaithful to God and his People, as to
* lofe fo glorious a Caufe. But we do refolve, with
' the Affiftance of God, to adhere to you in the con-
* tinuing of our dear-purchafed Liberties, both Spi-
' ritual and Civil. The Reafon of our Proceedings
' in this Manner may feem ftrange ; but if you duly
* confider the Neceflities of our Affairs, and the pre-
« fent State of Things, you will certainly conclude
* nothing fo fafe to fecure public Intereft, and to
* engage the Nations peaceably to fubmit to a Free
* State ; moft of thefe Members having given us full
' Aflurance, that their Seffion in Parliament (hall
* not be longer than abfolute Neceffity will require
' to the putting the Government intofucceffive Par-
' liaments, they not being free fo to aft by the old
' Writs, as when they fhall be called upon a Com-
' monwealth Account : And it is the Opinion of the
« trueft Friends to a Free State, That it cannot be
' confiftent with the perpetual fitting of thefe Mem-
' bers, being contrary to the Nature of fuch a Go-
* vernment.
« And as we are confident the prefent Parliament,
* now fitting, will not repeal any of the A&s, Or-
' dinances, or Orders of this Parliament, for Sales or
' public Difpofitions of Lands ; fo we (hall, in our
* Station, obferve, and caufe to be obferved, all
* other Ads and Ordinances of this Parliament
' whatfoever, and humbly interpofe with the next
' fucceeding Parliament, not only to pafs a further
' Aft of Confirmation of all fuch Sales and Difpo-
6 fitions of Lands, here and in Scotland, but alfo
* of all the Diftributions and Difpofitions of Lands
* and Houfes in Ireland to the Soldiery, Adventu-
c rers, or any other Perfons, made by or in purfu-
' ance of any of the A6ts, Ordinances, or Orders,
* of this prefent Parliament, or any pretended Par-
' liamemary Authority.
'And
Inter- regimen ,
1659.
March.
272 ¥he Parliamentary HISTORY
* And we entreat you to fend up an Officer, to give
e to the Lord -General Monke an Account of your Ac-
« quiefcence with us herein. And if any difaffe&ed
* Perfons fhall hereby take Occafion to make Di-
« fturbance of the Peace of the Commonwealth,
* either in Favour of Charles Stuart, or any other
« pretended Authority, we defire you to fecure them
' till the Pleafure of the Parliament or Council of
* State be known in that Behalf. You fhall fpee-
K dily receive Encouragements and Supplies of Mo-
* nies ; and, indeed, it was not the leaft Motive that
* induced us to this Way of Compofure of Affairs,
« that we might facilitate the raifing of Monies for
« the Subfiftence of the Army and Navy, which
' would not otherwife have been done, if at all, but
« with Effufion of Blood. We have nothing more
« at this Time, but to aflure you that we fhall ever
* remain,
Dear Brethren and Fellow Soldiers,
Whitehall, Feb. 21,
1659.
Tour very ajfettionate Friends,
GEORGE MONKE,
R KNIGHT,
JOHN CLOBERY,
THO. READ,
Jo. HUBBLETHORNE,
LEONARD LIDCOT,
THO. SANDERS,
WILLIAM EYRE, ")
RICH. MOSSE, | ^
WILLIAM FARLEY, I "j|
ARTHUR EvELIN, f ~|
JOHN STREATER, ] ^
J
Jo. BUTLER, £>uarter-Mafter-Genera?,
ETHELBERT MORGAN,")
JAMES MUTLOVT, J
JAMES EMERSON, )> Lieutenant-Colonels,
JOSEPH WITTER,
DENNIS PEPPER,
JAMES DENNIS JER. SMITH,
RICH. WAGSTAFF, NATH. BARTON^
THO. JOHNSON, THO. HIGGS,
FRA. NICHOLS, JOHN CLARK,
W. GOODWIN,
HEN. OGLE,
/
[
J
Majors^
Captains.
To
Of ENGLAND. 173
To proceed now again with the Do&or : We fliall inter-regnum,
purpofely pafs over fome private Converfation be- 1659.
tween the General and his Chaplain, about Bifhops, *— — v""«J
fcfV. as well as of fome other Matters, of little or no March»
Confequence, relating to the Church ; and purfue,
with our Author, the Civil and Military Affairs of
the Nation, which were now every where on the
Wheels of Motion. The Parliament had conftitu-
ted a new Council of State ; had taken off the En-
gagement againft the King and Houfe of Lords.
This laft, he tells us, was impofed on the Subject
foon after the Murder of the^King, when the Army
had fet up the Remainder of the Houfe of Commons
for a Free State. Though, he adds, the Solemn
League and Covenant, which was in fome Senfe for
Monarchy, but in all againft Prelacy, hung ftill on
the Walls of the Houfe of Commons, and which,
with the Names of the renowned Subfcribers, was
left to the Cenfure of the next Parliament.
* The General kept a watchful Eye on his Enemy,
the other Army ; but, being now in full Martial
Power over all, he went on reforming the Colonels
and the other Officers, who were found troublefome
or difaffec~ted, till he had not left a Zealot or a
Preacher amongft them. The Parliament eafed him
alfo of much Trouble, by fettling the Militia ; in
which, the Doctor tells us, neither Independent,
Anabaptift, Fifth-Monarchy-Man, or Quaker, had
any Sort of Command ; a Cavalier was then become
a lefs odious Name. And thus, adds he, were Things
carried all over the Nation, and a fair Profpect gi-
ven of the King's Return, all the ambitious and pu-
ritanical Officers of the marching Army being laid
afide.
' There did not want the Power of Money, alfo,
to affift the Caufe, which will always do great
Matters with the common Soldiery, the Parliament
having taken Care to continue the 100,000 /.
monthly Afleflment on England and Wales^ for fix
Months more. By this Means Col. Overton's Gar-
rifon at Hull, of which he was Governor, were
gained from him, and he obliged to give up that
ftrong
174 T%e Parliamentary HISTORY
ftter-regnum. ftrong Fortrefs to the Parliament, which otherwife
l659- might have proved very troublefome.
4"7TVr"*11'^ ' ^ut ^> the Do&or acquaints us, there was an-
other great Rub to get over ; all the Officers in the
Army, who kept their Commiffions, had actually
figned their Concurrence for introducing the fecludcd
Members, and owned the Neceffity of it ; but yet
they would underftand their Obedience to the Parlia-
anent to extend no further than as they were grounded
upon a Free State : For this was the Phrafe Monke
and his Officers ufed in their Letter to the Parlia-
ment, which intimate^ a Readinefs in them to take
Care thefe fhould not be loft. Hut now they were
notfatisfied of the good Intentions of the Parliament
touching this Government ; nor much better of the
General's, who had refufed the Offer of the Honour
and Manor of Hampton-Court , (the only Portion of
Crown-Lands yet unfold) porTeffed by Cromwell ',
when he affumed the Title of Protector : For the old
fitting Members had craftily propofed the giving of
this to him ,and the fecluded could not fairly with-
ftand theMotion of rewarding him : But theGeneral,
upon his refufing the Donation of thefe Lands, as a
Houfe too great for him, was recompenfed with a
Gift of 20,000 /. yet this Non-acceptance rendered
him ftill more fufpedled.
' Now thefe Officers, when they faw the General
had refufed thefe Crown- Lands, and even the Dig-
nity of the Crown itfelf, when offered by fome who
beft underftood their own Safety, combined into
dangerous Refolutions, and contrived a Paper to be
univerfally fubfcribed, (prefenting it to the General
for his Subfcription in the firft Place) the Purport of
which was, To declare that the Government of thefe
Three Nations fhould be a Commonwealth, with-
out Kingfhip or any other Single Perfon, by what
Name or Title foever dignified or diftinguiflied :
And that this prefent Parliament fhould be required
to pafs this into an Ac!:, as a Fundamental Confti*
tution, not to be fhaken or queftioned by future
Parliaments ; and that the Army ought, upon no
other Terms, to maintain their Authority. Thefe
Officers
Of E N G L A N D. 175
Officers did aflfemble very daringly before the Ge- Inter-regnura.
neral, Col. Okey being their Prolocutor. This j659-
Gentleman was a better Soldier than an Orator ; *•— "v— "-^
befide that his Life lay at Stake, having fat as Judge
upon the King's. He was alfo a known Stickler for
the Commonwealth's Party, and but lately as much
a General as Monke himfelf ; neither did he want
either a Courage to aft, or, poflibly, a Party of the
Army to follow him : Wherefore the General did
not efteem it prudent to ruffle in Words, though he
was refolved not to gratify their Requeft, by fub-
fcribing to the Paper : So that Commiflary C!argi?
(for fo now he was of the Mufters) was put upon
undertaking the Debate, for he had the General's
good Opinion, as favouring his Defign : And indeed
it concerned him to deferve it, both their Interefts
being bound up in the fame Bottom.
' I happened to be prefent at tire Debate, which
Ciargis managed with much Refolution and Dexte-
rity of Words, laying before them their own Dan-
ger, in making at that Time fuch an Addrefs to the
Parliament, in regard this was the very Parliament:
that would not be frighted with their Arms or Im-
peachments of HighTreafon before; much lefs now,
when all fober Men faw the Inconveniency of being
govern'd by an Army: Further infmuating, That the
General and his Officers were not to prefcribe unto
them : That the Parliament had an Authority, in
which themfelves, by their Subfcription, did acqui-
efce : That they could vote the General, and whom
elfe they thought fit, out of their Commands ; ar.d,
when that was done, pafs a Vote for their own Dif-
folution, without appointing the iduing out of Write
for the fucceeding Parliament : For if the General,
he faid, would break his Promife of not difturbing
them, they might very well break theirs for calling •
another Parliament : And that there would be no
Fear of a Civil Government, becaufe there was none
to aflume it, (unlefs they would truft Richard Crom-
well) the General having refufed it, as fome of
themfelves well knew, who had made him an Offer
of it, Thefe Reafons the General approved of;
and
iy6 *The Parliametitary HISTORY
Inter-regimm. and added, That he would rather be torn in Pieces
l659« by wild Horfes, than be fo treacherous to his
t-"""v"T-J Country's Freedom.
< The Debate was long, and not without fome
Heat of Words ; but after our Officers had fpent
their Fears and Jealoufies of loting the Good Old
Caufe, the General, with Gravity and Calmnefs,
admonifhed them, that it was contrary to the Dif-
cipline of an Army to meddle with Civil Govern-
ment: That they and he were under the Command
of the Parliament, their Superiors: That he did not
doubt but the next Parliament would quiet all their
Apprehenfions ; and that this, could not hurt them,
for that they were upon the Point of diflblving
themfelves : Then he feverely commanded his Of-
ficers to have no more of thefe Meetings without his
Privacy, foon after removing fome of them from
their Commands.
' The next Trouble the General found, our Au-
thor tells us, was from the Parliament itlelf j fevcral
of whofe Members, defirous to keep their Places,
were offering at breaking the Articles of their Ad-
miffion, and not to yield to the calling of another
Parliament. Mr. Prynne fpoke it openly, ' That, if
the King muft come in, it was fafeft for them that
he {hould come in by their Votes, who had made the
War againft his Father.' But, Mr. Prynne being
fent for, he was admonifhed to be quiet; and it was
the Bufmefs of fome others, the Doctor fays, to
keep their expiring Seflion of Parliament fteady,
and clear from intermeddling with Change of Go-
vernment. They did not, however, part without
leaving fome Testimony of their Difloyalty behind
them, as, by pafling a Vote for the General to give
no Commiflions to any Officer, but to fuch as would
make the following Declaration :
/ A. B. do acknowledge and declare^ That tkt
War undertaken by both Houfes of Parliament, in
their defenfive Part^ again/I the Forces raijed in tbt
Name of the late King, was juft and law/uL
Of ENGLAND.
They alfo added the following Claufe in the Icter-regnuu.
Qualification Bill : 1659.
'That all and every Perfon and Pirfatts* tuba hove Marc»»
odvifed^ aidedy abetted, or ajjifted, In any War again/I
the Parliament^ fence tht jirft of January, 1641, kf9
they^ or their Sons, Jhall be incapable to be eleRed to
ferve as Members of the next Parliament* unleft bf
or they have fince manifefted their good Afftftiom t9
this Parliament.
And now the Parliament having done all the Ge-
neral's Work for him, he longed to get rid of them ;
and thinking them a little dilatory, he took the
Liberty to put them in Mind of it himfelf. But as
the longeft Day will have an End, adds the Do£tor,
this Long Parliament difiblved themfelves, March
the l6th ; and as for their Votes, they were no
more regarded than dead Men's Shoes, the Country
haftening to new Elections as faft as the Writs came
down.— Thus far our Hiftorians.
And now, before we take an eternal Leave of
thefe Men, who had lorded it over Three Nations,
under the Name of a Parliament, for fo many Years
together, we think fit to fubjoin to our Hiftory of
them, another fhort Pamphlet, printed in the Year
1660, very near their Fall. ^By this the Reader
will fee, that the Patriots of thofe Times had the
fame lucrative Views, in ferving their Country, as
thofe of later Dates ; and that the Auri facra Fames9
(the Motto to the Book) whatever their Pretenfions
might be, was more cogent than the Laws and Li-
berties they feemingly fought for. We {hall not
take upon us to affert the Truth of every Man's
Character, which is alphabetically put down in the
Pamphlet ; the Reader will find that many Names
of Members are omitted in the Catalogue, which
makes us charitably fuppofe, that thofe Men fhared
not in the general Plunder made on Church, Crown,
and Bifhops Lands, forfeited Eftates, &c. whiift
Voi,. XXII. M others
178' The Parliamentary HISORV
Iflter-regmun.' others apparently did fo, at an exorbitant Rate. No^
doubt it was to blacken thofe Men only, that this"
Catalogue was printed ; and we believe the Reader
will find, on comparing Lifts, that they were by far
the Majority of the then Houfe' of Commons. The
Title of the Pamphlet is as follows :
TheMyftery of the Good OldCaufe, briefly unfolded,
in a Catalogue of fitch Members of the late Long
Parliament, that held Offices, both Civil and Mi-
litary) contrary to the Self-denying Ordinance. To-
gether with the Sitms of Money and Lands which
they divided among themfelves during their Sitting,
at leajl fuch as were difpojed of publickly. b
Such as have this Mark * before their Names, were
Recruiters of that 'Long Parliament, and illegally
chofen ; and thofe with this Mark % were the King's
Judges.
< \ T TILLIAM ALLANSON, Kt. Alder-
VV man of York, was made Clerk of the
Hanaper, a Place worth iooo/. per Annum, had
Cawood-Caftle, worth 600 /. per Annum? once the
Bifhop of Tork'&9 and hath purchafed a vaft Reve-
nue of Bifhops Lands at eafy Rates.
' John Ajh had given him out of Mr. Coventry's
Compofition, 4000 /. out of Sir Edward Mcfeieys*
iooo /. out of Mr. Edward Phillips 's, 1200 /. out of
Sir John Stowel's Eftate, 8000 /. and, which is worth
all this, was the great Chairman at Goldfmhhs-
Hall. Is not this better than Cloathing ?
' *l Francis Allen, a Goidfmith at St. Dun/Ian* $ in
Fleet-Jlreet, was made Cuftomer of London, befides
other Offices and Gifts, and bath purchafed, at a low
Rate, the Bifhop of Che/ler's Houfes at iVmcbifter
and Waltham, was one of his Sovereign's Judges,,
and a conftant Rumper.
' % John Alured, Colonel, one of his Sovereign's
Judges, and a conftant Rumper,
b Ltnden, printed In the firft Ye« of JSiffmt'e Libertj,
o\«ft twwty Years Sjirsrf, 16^9.
Of ENGLAND. 179
* Thomas Atkins, Alderman, as honeft as fweet : Inter-
He was a Treafurer at War, and licked his Fingers l659
at the Time the major Part of the Houfe of Parlia- jJa*ch
ment was, by unheard-of Infolence, feciuded from
fitting. He was the only Member left in it that
ferved for the City of Norwich, and was a conftant
Rumper to the Jaft.
* Edward AJh, Woollendraper, Treafurer for pro-
viding of Cloaths for the Irijh Soldiers.
* * William Ay f cough , Captain of a Troop of
Horfe.
f William Armyne, Knr. Agent in Scotland foi the
State ; a factious wicked one in his Way.
' William Armyne, Colonel.
* — — AJhurft, went a Commiffioner into Scot-
land^ had the Clerk of the Peace's Place for Lan-
cajhire, and iooo/. in Money given him.
4 *% y°^n Brad/haw, Serjeant of the Law, Lord-
Prefident of the High Court of Injuftice, and Preft-
cient of the Council of State. There was given him.
(befides the Earl of St. Albany's Manor of Summers-
Hal!, in Kent* worth 15007. per Annum) the Lord
Cottington's Eftate, called Fantebill, in Wilt/hire*
his Manor of Hanworth, near Hun/low, in Middle-
fex, and the Dean's Houfe at the College at Weft-
•minjler. He was one of the Judges of the Sheriffs'
Court in Guildhall \ London^ and Juftice of the
County Palatine of Chejler. After the moft noto-
rious Villainies that ever were committed, for the
keeping up a Tail of a Parliament in perpetual
Power, he faw it interrupted for almoft iix Years
together, and at length died, during the laft Inter-
ruption of it by Lambert.
^ < Edward Bijhe, Garter Herald in Sir Edward
Walker's Place, worth 3 or 400 /. per Annum : An
honeft Man.
4 * John Bond, Son to Dennis Bond, a Parlia-
ment Man, made Mafter of Trinity- Hall, in Cam-
bridge, which Mr. Selden refufed to accept of.
' * Nathaniel Bacon had given him 3OOO/. a/tet1-
wards Mafter of the Requefts to the Cromwells, during
the greateft Part of their Ufurpation, bis Salary for
M ?, which
180 'The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. which was 500 /. per Annum, and it is likely would
be in the fame Office for whomfoever would pay
him the fame Wages.
' Sir William Brereton, Colonel, General for the
Chejhire Forces, had the Sequeftration of Cq/biober-
ry, and other Lands of the Lord Capel, worth 2000 /.
'per Annum.) and the Archbiftiop's Houfe and Lands
at Croydon, where he hath turned the Chapel into a
Kitchen. — A goodly Reformation, and fits with his
Stomach as well as his Religion. He was one of
the Rumpers, and a bafe Coward.
< % John Blake/Ion, a Shop-keeper in Newcaftk,
was Executor to the Executor of Sir Jo. Farmer*
trufted with 6000 /. for charitable Ufes, and was
iued in Chancery to perform the Truiir, but got
himfelf returned a Burgefs for Newcajile, by the
Scots Garrifon there; had 3000 /. given him out
of the Marquis of Newcaftle's and the Lord IVid-
drington's Eftates, in Compenfation of the Lofs of
his Pedlar's Ware in his Shop. He had formerly
given him 14,000 /. and 560 /. was given to his
Brother John, as was made appear before a Com-
mittee, whereof Mr. Sandis of the Temple war,
Chairman. He had alfo a Coal-meter's Place, worth
20O /. per Annum, and the Bifhop of Durham* Ca-
ftle at Durham, and Lands of great Value. He was
one of the King's Judges.
' * John Birch, Colonel, afterwards a fcc'uden
Member.
« Godfrey Bofwfll, Colonel.
* Richard Brown, Major-«General and Governor
of Abingdon, was afterwards profecuted for defigning
to fecure the City of London^ when Fairfax, by the
Command of his Lieutenant-General CranweU*
inarched with his Army againft the City, the chiefeft
Occafion and Inlet of all our Woes. He was im-
prifoned for the moft Part of the Rumps and Oliver'*
Tyranny, and hath manifefted himfelf, both by his
Actings and Sufferings, a cordial Lover both of hi?
Prince and Country, and hath been a very active
Inftruraent for the Goad of tbcfe Kingdoms.
^ENGLAND. j8r
c William Bingham, Colonel of Horfe and Foot, inter-regnum.
Governor of Pool, had given him IOOO/. 1659.
* John Brown, married Sir Richard Trenchard's ^— "*"* "^
Sifter, a petty Committee- Man, feized IOOO/. of March-
the Stock and Goods of Farmer Wades, in Port-
land, whom, tho' the Committee acquitted of Ma-
lignancy, yet could not his Goods, being in the
Hands of a Member, be re-deiivered : So they arc
malignant ftill, and fecured in Mr. Brown's Hands.
' | Dennis Bond, a Woollendraper, he takes, by
his Truftees,x his Sons and Brother, one Son he
made Mailer ofTrinify-Hall, in Cambridge^ another
Auditor of the Excife, worth 500 /. per Annum ;
and his Brother, Governor of Portland, Receiver of
the King's Rents in Southampton and Somerfet. He
was one of the King's Judges.
' John Bellt Apothecary to the Body Politic, hath
as little given him as he deferves in honeft Times i
but, to preferve the Privilege of the Houfe, is pro-
tedded for what he can get. He was a Truftee for
the Poor at Wejlminfter ; Receiver of Mr. Anthro-
bus's and others Money for the Poor; was fued for
an Account, faid he could not anfwer without Breach
of Privilege of Parliament, and that he durft not ;
by which Means Parliament-Men are the fureft
Keepers of a Truft.
c Thomas Boone, formerly a Tapfler, had 6000 /.
given him : A cruel Committee-Man, that lick'd his
Fingers, and hath got a vaft Eftate.
' Richard Barry^ Colonel, Governor of Garlifle.
* Francis Bacon^ Recorder of Ipfwich, in the
Place of Requefts to both the Protedors, for the
fame Salary with his Brother Nat.
' * Sir Thomas Barnardifton, Colonel.
* * Robert Blake, Colonel, Governor ofTauntan,
and one of the Admirals of England.
6 % Daniel Blagrave^ a CounfelSor at Law, a
great Committee-Man, Steward of Reading, and was
made Treafurer of the faid County ; had given him
the Exegenter's Office of the Common Pleas, worth
500 /. per Annum. He bought the King's Fee Farm
M of
The 'Parliamentary HISTORV
r-regnum. of the great Manor of Sunningg, in Berkflnre, and
l659- other Eftates, at very eafy Rates ; Mafter Extraor-.
V"'"""J dinary in Chancery, a conftant Rumper, and one of
his Majefty's moft cruel Judges : He was a great
Perfecutor of the Minifters of Reading^ or elfe they
flander him, which is hardly poffible.
* + Oliver Cromwell. This Scourge of God was,
m the Beginning of thefe Troubles, a Man of no
confiderable Fortune. There are Letters of his to
be feen in the Hands of a Perfon of Quality, wherein
he mentions his whole Eftate to amount to about
I300/. which at that Time he intended to lay out
upon a Purchafe of drained Fen Lands. He pafled
thro' the leveral Degrees of Military Command, till
he was advanced to be General of the Army, du-
ring which Time he received great Gifts out of the
Eftates of the Duke of Buckingham^ the Lord Fran-
cis Fillers, the Marquis vlWorcefter** Eftate, worth
5 or 6000 A per Annum, and others, befides great
Sums of Money at feveral Times; and, 'tis faid, for
fome Years, the whole Revenue of near all the Be-
nefices in (Pales? employing four itenerant Teachers
to coaft about that Country, for ioo/. per Annum a
Man; and tookOccafion to diflblve the Rump of the
Long Parliament, juft as they were going to call for
the Accounts of that Money, which amounted to a
vaft Sum. One would have thought all this, with
the General's Pay, might have fatisfied fuch a Man's
Appetite, whofe Beginning was fo mean; but, ha-
ving projected Greatnefs and Sovereignty to himfelf
from the Beginning, he waded to it thro' the Blood
of his natural Prince, and s;reat Numbers of his Fel-
low Subjects, and made himfelf Supreme Governor
of thefe Nations, under the Title of Protector, which
Power he held with much Oppreffion, Diflimula-
tion, Hypocrify, and Bloodfhed, for about five Years,
when God cut him offbefore he had well provided for
the Eftablifhment of his Son in the Succeflion. His
Funeral was folemnized with great Pomp, they fay
to the Expence of 30,000 /. which is yet unpaid,
fie fpent a vafs deaj of Treafure to maintain his
Tyranny $
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Tyranny.;, bulj.he is gone to his own. Place, and let
his Memory be acgurfed ibr ever.
* | Miles Corbel , at the Beginning of this Parlia-
ment, a Man of fmall Eftate, made one of the Re-
gifters in Chancery, worth 700 /. per Annum^ and
hath Money in his Purfe. He was ten Times one
of the Commiffioners in Ireland, worth what he will
per Annum, and one of the King's Judges, and a
Rumper.
' Sir John Clotworthy, Treafurer for Ireland, and,
by the Army, charged with defrauding the State of
4.0,000 /. which may be one Reafon the King could
never get an Account of the Money raifed for the
Irijh, though he much defired it.
' Thomas Ceely, much indebted, if not helped out
of Prifon by. the Parliament, and made Recorder of
Rridgewater.
' I Gregory Clements, Merchant in both Senfes :
When he had been a Member two Months, pro-
tefted he had fcarce cleared the Purchafe Monies,
which was but 60 /. but faid. Trading he doubted not
would mend. . He was one of the King's Judges.
' Sir Henry Cholmley, Colonel of Horie, and ©nee
a zealous Commiffioner ofYorkJhire. Since, he hath
given fome Teftimonies of Loyalty.
* Robert Cecil, Son to the Earl of Sail/bury , Colo-
nel of Horfe, procured one Co/lings to be made Au-
ditor in Chief for the Revenues of the King, Queen,
and Prince, worth 2000 /. per Annum j but in Truft
for the Colonel.
' Sir Anthony Afnley Cooper-^ a Colonel j fince, he
hath manifefled his Loyalty to his Prince very emi-
nently.
' | William ConjlaUe, Colonel, and one of the
King's Judges. Sold his Lands to Sir Marmaduke
Langdale for 2O,ooo/. and had them given him:
again by the Parliament.
< % Sir John Danvers, Colonel. After the Death
of his Brother, the Earl of Denby, he proved him to
be a Malignant, and, by Parliamentary Proceedings,
endeavoured to overthrow his Will, and out his
Sifter Gargravt, and Sir Peter OJborne of the Efla.te
worth
184 2^ Parliamentary HISTORY
fnter-regmrai. worth 30,000 /. and to have it himfelf. He was one
of the King's Judges.
* Edmund Dunce, Conftable of Wallingford-Caflle.
« Henry Darly and Richard Darfy- Given to their
Father, for them, 5000 f. A Pair of Zealous Rump-
ers ; the former was extreme a&ive in bringing in
the Army of the Brethren of Scotland to the Ruin
of his native Country. Both bafe.
4 William Ellis, Steward of Stepney, worth 200^.
per Annum, and by him fold to one of" the Temple.
He made Hafte to be rich, and was a mighty thri-
tring Committee-Man during the late deftrudtive
Wars : He was afterwards Sollicitor-General to the
two Prote&ors; was very zealous for the making
of Oliver King, for which his good Lord made him
Knight. He hath, from nothing, in a few Years,
got an Eftate fuppofed to be worth 3000 /, per An-
num.
* Sir Walter Erie, Colonel of Horfe, and Lieu-
tenant of the Ordnance in Sir 'John Heydon's Place,
worth iooo/. per Annicm in Time of Peace; but,
in Time of War, worth 50,000 /. per Annum.
6 Thomas Erie, Son to Sir Welttr, Captain of a
Troop of Horfe, feldom attended the Houfe, but
followed his Bufinefs in the Country, where he was
a great Committee-Man, helping himfelf and his
Friends.
6 * James Fenwicl:, Captain of a Troop of Horfe.
e William Fenwick, had but 500 /. So fmall a
Sum deferves not a Chriilian Name.
' Nathaniel 'Fiennes, once Governor afBriflol, and,
thereby hangs a Tail ; afterwards one of the Com-
miflioners of the Seal under Nol, and one of his Pi ivy
Council ; but now his Lordmip is gone.
' J George Fleetwood, Colonel, a conftant Rump-
er, and one of the King's Judges.
4 * Charles Fleetwood, Colonel, and Lord-Deputy
of Ireland. This pitiful Anabaptift was Oliver's Son-
in-Law, and, upon that Score, advanced to be Lieu-
tenant-General of the Army ; for Merit he never
had any. In the dividing of the murdered King's
Inheritance, H^od/lock. and other rich Poffeffions,
fell
Of E N G L A N D. 185
fell t6 his Share. About a Year fmce he, with Inter- ttgaom,
fome other Officers, ungratefully dethroned Protestor l659-
Richard^ reftored the Rump for a while, and then ^""VT^T
unroofed them again ; after which, during the Space
of near fix Weeks, he aded King at Wallingford-
Houje* (one of his Palaces) but the Rump coming
to fit again, the tender-hearted Mock-Prince melted
into Tears ; and, his hypocritical Vizard of Religion
being pulled off, he went off the Stage ridiculoufly.
' John Goodwin^ the other Regifter in Chancery^
Worth 700 /. -per Annum.
6 Sir Gilbert Gerrard^ Pay-Mafter to the Army,
had 3 d. per Pound allowed, worth 6o,ooo/. and was
Chancellor of the Duchy, worth I200/. per An-
num.
< Gilbert Gerrard, his fecond Son, Clerk to thfc
Duchy, for whofe Benefit the Clerkfhip of Affize of
Norfolk is granted to Mr. Edward Gerrard, his
Coufin, by the Procurement of Sir Gilbert, and was
worth 500 /. per Annum.
' Gyle s Green, the Receiver of Torkjhi're^ being
put out of his Place, got it for his Son-in-Law ; is
Chairman for the Navy; and as for Sir Thomas
Dawes's Eftate, and what it was worth to him, Sir
Thomas's Creditors will tell you, for they got nd*
thing.
* * T/Jomas Gell^ Lieutenant-Colonel t6 Sir John
Gel/, made Recorder of Derby in Mr. AlUftrny'*
Place.
* % Thomas Lord Grey9 of Gnby, Colonel, and
halh given to him the Queen's Manor-Houfe, Park,
and Lands at Holmby ; alfo purchafed a large Part
of the Lord Crdveh's Eftate, particularly Coomb e-
Abbey, judged worth 3000 1. per Annum, for an in-
confiderable Sum, and one of the King's Judges.
' * John Glyn, fome Time a Counfellor at Law,
and Steward of the Court at Weftminjter^ one of the
Long Parliament that helped to bait the worthy Earl
of Straffbrd, and bring him to the Block ; was
Clerk of the Petty- Bag in Sir Edward Ward*'*
Place, worth loco/, per Annum. He mnde foi<
Father-in-Law, Mr. Squib, Clarwceaux Herald in
Sir
j86 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. Sir William Neves's Place, worth 400 /. per Annum^
s6S9- and made his Creature and Kinfman Falconbridge
'^Tl^T^ Comptroller of the Excife, a Place worth 500 /.
per Annum, as alfo a Receiver-General of the King's
Queen's, and Princes Revenues, worth 2000 /. per
Annum* Mr. Glyn conferred on his Coufln Law-
rence Swetnam the Wine- Office, worth 300 /. per
Annum, and made him Receiver of the Firft- Fruits,
worth 200 /. per Annum ; but, Mr. Swetnam dying,
he got both the Places for his Brother-in-Law Bo-
dardo, that they might not go out of the Tribe. He
was made Recorder of London ; and then, being
made a Serjeant at Law, by Agreement, as it is faid,
refigned to Mr. William Steel, and was made a
Judge j and for his Zeal in Conie's Cafe, to advance
the Protector's Will above the Law of the Land,
and finding him fo fit for his Purpofe, he fent him
into the Weft, (Chief- Juftice Rolls refufmg) to ar-
raign that valiant Gentleman Col. Penruddock, and
the reft of thofe Gentlemen taken at Soutbmoulton^
in Devon, by Article-breaking Crooks; for which
good Services, and his complying Principles to ad-
vance the Protector, he was made Lord Chief Ju-
ftice of England, and no doubt behaved himfelf in
the Place as his Mafter would have him, by whom
he was alfo made a Lord of his Other Houfe ; but
that and he fell with the Idol Dick. He was one of
the eleven Members impeached by the Army for
Treafon, and by that Parliament committed to the
Tower.
* Thomas Grantbam, Colonel of Foot, fmce dead.
* * Ellis Grimes, Captain.
* Arthur Goodwin, Colonel of Foot, fmce dead.
c Brampton Gurdon, Colonel.
* Sir Arthur Ha/ilrigge. This boiftcrous Incen-
diary having, by bafe and vile Courfes, pofleffed
himfelf of feveral Coal-pits near Newca/lle, was
fome Years, as it may be feared, the Occafion of
the ftarving many poor People in London to Death,
thro' Cold ; for he, (being Governor) without any
public Authority, laid a Tax of four Shillings per
Chaldron,
Of E N G L A N D. 187
Chaldron, upon the Coals there, amounting to Interregnum*
50,000 /. per Annum. He got three great Manors 1659-
of the Biftiops, Auckland, Everwood, and another, for ^—•"V"^
an inconfulerable Matter : He hath been an irnpla- Mardl>
cable Enemy to one Mr. Collingwocd, and wronged
him of a great Eftate : He hath a rich Fleece, re-
ported to the Value of 20,000 /. per Annum ; but it
is hoped he will, e'er long, be fheared.
' Sir Edivard Hunger ford. Colonel, famous for
plundering of Warder-Cajlle ; had the Lands of the
Countcfs Dowager of Rutland, worth 1500 1. per
Annum, and fhe was allowed but 500 /. out of them.
* J Cornelius Holland. His Father died in the
Fleet for Debt, and left him a poor Boy in the Court
waiting on Sir Henry Vane, then Comptroller of the
Prince's Houfe. He was ftill Sir Henry Fane's Za^-
r,y, but now, coming in with his Mafter for" the
Revenue of the King, Queen, and Prince, this Pha-
rifee was engaged with other Monopolifts and Pa-
tentees, while they flood, his Confcience fcrupling
not the Means where Profit was the Prize. He was
turned out of the Office of the Green Cloth for
Fraud and Breach of Truft ; but, with the Help of
his Mafter, made himfelf a Farmer of the King's
Feeding-Grounds at Crejloe, in Buckingbamjhire^
•worth i8oo/. or 2000 /. per Annum, at the Rate of
20 /. per Annum, which he difcounted. He poflef-
fed Somerfet- Houfe a long Time, where he and his
Family nefted themfelves. He was Keeper of Rich'
mond-Houfe for his Country Retreat, and Commif-
fary for the Garrifons at Whitehall and the Mewes.
He had an Office in the Mint, and, having ten Chil-
dren, he long fince gave 5000 /. with a Daughter,
after which Rate we muft conceive he had laid afide
50,000 /. for Portions. He was one of the King's
Judges, and one of the Committee of Safety.
' Sir Robert Harley, Mafter of the Mint in the
Place of Sir Ralph Freeman, and Sir Thomas Aylef-
bury. Before the Parliament he was much in-
debted, very poor, and could not pay j now he is
fich, and will not pay.
1 88 The Parliamentary HISTORY
4nter-«gnum. 6 Henry Herbert had given him 3000 /. and the
1659. Plunder of Ragland-Caftle.
W"V-— iJ < John Hampden, Colonel of Foot, killed at Cal-
March* grove Field, where he made his firft Mufter. His
eldeft Son made fince a Lord by Oliver Cromwell.
' Col. Hacker, Governor of Lincoln, a Commif-
fioner to bring in the Scots, and one of the three to
whom the bloody Warrant, for his late Majefty's
Execution, was directed.
' * Sir Henry Hayman had given him 5000 /.
* Denzil Holies had 5000 1. ordered him, but re-
fufed it, and defired them to pay their Debts before
they paid their Legacies. He was one of the eleven
Members impeached by the Army, was very hot in
the Beginning of the Troubles, but is fince of a bet-
ter Temper, and hath contributed much to the Re-
ftoration of his Prince, and his Nation's Peace.
* Roger Hill, a Barrifter of the Temple, of no
confiderable Eftate till he had granted him, from the
Houfe,the Bifhop offlfinL-be/ier's Manor ofTaunton-
Dean, being the beft in England, worth 1 2,000 /.
per Annum, when the Eftates for Lives determine.
He was one of the Commiffioners of Haberdajbers-
' Ball.
* t John Heivfon, at firft a Cobler of London, or
at belt a Shoe-maker, went out a Captain upon the
Account of the Caufe. His Zeal brought him to be
a Colonel, and was afterwards made Governor of
Dublin in Ireland, from whence he was fent for to be
one of Barebcne's Parliament, and of all the mock
Parliaments fince ; was made a Knight of the new
Stamp, and afterwards was thought a fit Perfon to
be a Lord of the Other Houfe ; and, for his Wifdom
and good Service in all his other Employments, was
thought worthy to be one of the twenty-three ho-
nourable Perfons of the Committee of Safety, that
were to manage all public Affairs of the Nation, and
to conlider upon a Frame of Government to be efta-
blifhed ; but, in the Heat of that great Work, he
was in all Hafte, by his Brethren of that Commit-
tee, fent in a Rage into London, to kill and ftill the
innocent Boys playing at Foot-ball in the Streets,
much
Of E N G L A N D. 189
much like his Brother Pridey who cruelly deftroyed Inter-regnum.
the innocent Bears. Afterwards the Coroner's Jury
that fat upon the murdered Perfons, found his Lord-
{hip guilty. He had been tried at the Seflions Houfe
in the Old Bailyy had not the News of his Majefty's
happy Arrival prevented the fitting of that Court ;
and no doubt, before this Time, received the Re-
ward of his Works. He was likewife one of the
murderous Judges fitting upon his Prince.
' * Oliver St. John, the Son of one Mr. 5^
John, of Bedfordpnre^ who was fuppofed to be a
Eye-blow of one of the Earls of Bedford. This
Oliver was a Gentleman of flender Fortune, brought
up to the Profeffion of the Law ; who, by fpecial
Grace of his late Majefty, was both his Sollicitor
and Attorney- General. He deferted his Mafter,
and, adhering to the Parliament, was promoted to
Places ef very great Advantage many Years toge-
ther. He and Walter, called Lord Strickland, were
fent Ambafladors to the United Provinces. He had
alfo, many Years together, the pafling of all Fines
and Compofitions, faid to be worth 5000 /. per
Annum. He was alfo Lord Chief Juftice of the
Common Pleas many Years, a Place of vaft Pro-
fit. He was made Chancellor of the Univerfity of
Cambridge, in the Earl of Mancbejler's room, a
Perfon fignally anti-monarchical, till the Usurpation
ef Oliver Cromwell.
* \ Henry Ireton, Commiflary-General and Co-
lonel, Lord-Deputy of Ireland^ one of the King's
Judges, and one of the Appointers of the Time and
Place of his Execution.
' J Richard Ingoldfby^ Colonel, and Governor of
Oxford^ related to Crowwell^ one of the King's
Judges ; but fmce a true Penitent for it.
* Sir Thomas Jarvis had Mr. Web's Place in
Richmond Little Park, and had 9000 /. given him out
of the Marquis of Winchejltr'* Eftate.
' * Philip JoneS) Colonel, a Member of the Long
Parliament. His Original is from Wales : At the
firft of the War it is faid he had not above 20 /. per
'Annv.W) but hath fmce very much improved his In-
tereft
190 ¥he Parliamentary HisT6RV
Interregnum, tereft upbn Account of the Caufe; became Cover*
l659« nor of a Garrifon, and Steward offome of the Pro-
,7l T"^ lector's Lands in Wales ; was a great Stickler to
advance his Mafter to be Protestor, for which good
Service he was advanced to be one of his Council,
worth iooo/. per Annum ; afterwards Comptroller
of his Houfliold, or Court. He made Hay while
the Sun fhined, and hath improved his Revenue, as
it is believed, to 4000 /. per Annumy if not more*
He was alfo one of the Rump.
« \ John "Jones, at firft a Serving- man, then a
Colonel of the Long Parliament ; was fent a Com-
miflloner into Ire/and for the governing that Nation.
He likewife helped to change the Government, was
Governor of the Ifie of Anglesey, married the Pro-
tector's Sifter, and thorough- paced for his Court
Proceedings j who was thought fit, with his Name-
fake and Countryman Philip, to be called Lords*
and to be taken out of the Rump into the Other
Houfe, to have a Negative Voice againft the People.
He was alfo one of his Prince's Judges.
6 William Lenthall, ok Lincoln s- Inn, a Counfellor
at Law, Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, worth
aooo/. per Annum, befides Rewards for Courteftesj
Mafter of the Rolls, worth 3000 /. per Annum ; be-
fides the Sale of Offices j Chamberlain of Che/far in
the Earl of Derby's Place, and, untill lately, Chancel-
lor of the Duchy of Lancafter, worth iooo/. per
Annum. He was a Commiffioner of the Seal, worth
1 500 /. per Annum, and had 6000 /. one Time gi vert
him by the Houfe, and the Redory and Dememe of
Eurford, with a ftately Houfe belonging to the Lord
Falkland, worth 500 A per Annum. Oliver once
made a Spunge of him, and fqueezed him out of
1 5.000 /. who turning him and his Tribe out of
Doors, he veer'd about to fave himfelf and his great
Offices; and he that had been fo long Bell-weather
in the Commons Houfe, was thought, for his Com-
pliance and his Money, to deferve to be one of the
Herd of Lords in the Other Houfe.
* % John Lijle, Barrifter of the Temple, Mafter
of S. GrrJJefi in Dr. Lewis's Place, being a Place for
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a Divine, worth 800 /. per Annum ; one of the Lords Inter-regnom,
Commiffioners of the Great Seal, worth 1500 /. l659-
per Annum ; one of the King's Judges, afterwards <~7Jv"r"""'
became a Cromwellian, and fwore Oliver, at his firft
inftalling, Chief Magiftrate. He was Prefident of
the High Court of Juftice, (fo called) which tried
Sir Henry Slingfby, Dr. Htw'tt, &c. for Treafon
againft the Protector, and pafled Sentence of Death
againft them.
' % Nicholas Lovey the Son of Dr. Love, of Win-
cbejler, Mr. Speaker's Chamber-Fellow in Lincolns-
Inn, was made one of the fix Clerks in Chancery,
in Mr. Penruddock's Place, worth iooo/. per An-
num ; one of the Council of State in 1651 ; a con-
ilant Rumper, one of his Sovereign's cruel Judges,
and one of the Abjurators againft Kingly Power.
« * John Lenthall, Son to the Speaker, made one
of the fix Clerks, worth 15007. per Annum, knighted
by Oliver Cromwell ; was a Colonel of Foot, and
Governor of Windfor-Cajlle.
' Sir Oliver Luke, Colonel of Horfe,
* Sir Samuel Luke, his Son, Colonel and Scbut-
Mafter for the Counties of Bedford, &c.
6 % Sir Michael Livefey, of the Ifle of Sbeppey, in
Kent, heretofore a Colonel under Sir William Wal-
ler, but a moil notorious Coward ; a penurious
fneaking Perfon, and one that could a<ft an Hypo-
crite to the Life, in Voice and humble Gefture.
He was one of his Sacred Majefty's cruel Judges,
Committee- Man General of Kent^ and an eminent
Rumper.
4 Walter Long, Colonel, had 5000 /. and the Of-
fice of Regifter in Chancery for four Years.
* Henry Lawrence, a Member of the Long Parlia-
ment, fell off at the Murder of his Majefty, for
which the Protector, with great Zeal, declared,
That a neutral Spirit was more to be abhorred than
. a Cavalier Spirit, and that fuch Men as he were not
fit to be ufed in fuch a Day as that, when God was
•cutting down Kingfliip Root and Branch. Yet he
carae into Play again, and contributed much to the
fetting up of the Protedor. and a. Single Perfon r af-
firming
Parliamentary His TOR v
Inter-regnum. firming that no other Foundation could ftand ; fof
which worthy Service he was made and continued
Preftdent of the Protector's Council, where he figned.
many arbitrary and illegal Warrants for the carry-
ing faithful honeft Men to Prifon, for their not apo-
ftatizing with them. He was thorough paced, and
one, no doubt, who hath well feathered his Neft,
being alfo one of the Lords of the Other Houfe ;
and when that Honour vanifhed, he became one of
the Honourable Committee of Safety. What he will
be next is worth the Enquiry.
« Lord Vifcount Lif.e, eldeft Son of the Eari of
Leicejler. He was of the Long Parliament to the
laft, and at the Change of Government, and ma-
king Laws againfthis Sovereign ; and, no Queftion,
concurred with the reft in theie fad Effects. He
was alfo of the Little Parliament, commonly ftiled
Barebones Parliament ; was all along of the Pro-
tector's Council, and was never to feek j who
having learned fo much by changing with every
Change, and keeping ftill (like his Father-in-Law
the Earl of Saliflury and Peter Sterry) on that Side
which hath proved Trump ; nothing need further
be faid of his Fitnefs, being fuch a Man of Principles,
to be taken out of the Rump Parliament, to have
fettled a Negative Voice in that Other Houfe, over
all the good People of thefe Lands.
' * Thomas Lifter^ Lieutenant-Colonel, and De-
puty-Governor of Lincoln.
' % Edmund Ludlow, Colonel, Governor of War-
dour-Ca/ile^ Lieutenant- General of the Horfe, one
of the King's Judges, a great Fanatic, and Favourer
of fuch. He hath much improved his Fortune in
Ireland ; but now is gone to feek his Fortune elfe-
where.
* * Thomas Moore> Officer in the Cuftom-houfe,
and his Brother was Governor of Ludlew-Cafth.
' J Henry Martin, Colonel of a Regiment of
Horfe, and a Regiment of Whores. He had given
him 3000 /. at one Time, to put him upon the holy
Sifters, and take off from the Levellers. He had
the Reputation of a precious Saint from his Youth,
in
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iii reference to all Kinds of Debauchery, Unclean- Inter-regmun.
nefs, and Fraud, having fold his Eftate three Times l659-
over. He Jay many Years Prifoner in the King's ^•"""""V"" "•'
Bench for Debt, and difgraced the Place by renew-
ing the old Stews upon the Bank Side. He had fe-
veral other large Sums given, and was one of the
King's Judges.
' Sir Thomas Middleton, Major-General for Den-
bigh, and five other Counties, who hath manifefted
his Loyalty to his Prince, and is a true Patriot of his
Country.
* J Thomas Hammond, of Surry, was Lieurenant-
General of the Artillery under the Lord Fairfax,
and became a great Creature of that ambitious Ty-
rant Cromwell, and a Promoter of his Interefts ; by
whom he was drawn in to be one of thofe moft
cruel Judges of his Prince, to the very great Grief,
and contrary to the Admonitions, of his Reverend
Brother Dr. Hammond.
6 J John Moore, Colonel of the Guards. For
fome Time he had the Benefit of Pafles out of Lon-
don, and was one of the King's Judges.
' Sir John Merrick, Major-General.
* J Gilbert Milllngton, a Lawyer, had given him
iooo/. was Chairman to the Committee of plun-
dered Minifters, where Phelps the Clerk and he
were believed to fhare their Fees, worth God knows
what. He was one of the King's Ju.dges.
' * Richard Norton, Colonel, and Governor of
Southampton.
' Anthony Nichols, Mr. Pymme's Nephew, by him
was made Pay-Mafter to the MefTengers of Intelli-
gence, by which, in a ftiort Time, he put himfelf
in a Parliamentary Equipage of Coaches, Horfes,
and Attendants, got Money and paid his Father's
Debts ; but was afterwards fufpended the Ho u I e, and
now would not pay his own Debts by his Goodwill.
c Nicholas, one of the Judges of the Upper
Bench, and afterwards one of the Barons of the Ex-
chequer.
4 Michael Oldfworth, no Colonel, but Governor
of Old Pembroke and Montgomery, and had a Share
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194 ^e Parliamentary HISTORY
with his Lordfhip out of Sir Henry Campion?. Office,
worth 3000 /. per Ann. was Keeper oftfrindfor- Park,
one of the two Mafters of the Prerogative Office,
and made the Bailiff of Wejlminfter give him 50 /.
per Ann. to continue him there.
' * Arthur Owen, Colonel.
' J Sir John $ourchiert of Yorkjhlre, a Perfon of
no great Note, nor Eftate, till by his A&ivenefs in
our late Diftempers, and Fifhing in troubled Watery,
he angled fair, and catched a great Eftate, which
was that he fought for : He was a Man as conftant
at Committees as at his Dinners in Hell ; where he
may, in Time, fup with his Father Satan, having
been a conftant Rumper, and one of the King's
cruel Judges.
4 J Thomas Challoner, alfo a Yorkjhireman, emi-
nent for his Speech in the Houfe, for the delivering
of his late Majefty out of the Scots Clutches, into
whofe Protection he had put himfelf ; a Man moft
virulently invective againft Monarchy, having been
one of his Majefty's cruel Judges ; alfo now, at the
ibbereft, an infeparable Rumper, and to the laft an
eminent Stickler for a Commonwealth.
' J Richard Dean, Boy to Goodman Button, an
Hoyman of Ipf-wich, after a Matrofs in the Army,
then Colonel and Commander in Chief in Scotland*
till made one of the Generals at Sea ; he was there
killed, having left a great Eftate behind him, viz.
Havering Manor in Ejjex, whofe Park he unmerci-
fully demolifh'd : He was not only one of the King's
implacable Judges, but one of thofe that figned the
Warrant for his Death, and appointed the Time
and Place for his Execution.
' John Tburloe, a Servant and Secretary to Oliver
St. John, was after that made Principal Secretary
of State to Oliver Cromwell and Richard, and chofe
Poft-Mafter of England, a Place of a vaft Income ;
he may be juftly faid to be alfo a principal Inftru-
ment, and to have a great Hand in bringing in all
thofe abominable and wicked Practices and Oppref-
fions that have been for thefe many Years laft paft ;
ky which, and his under-hand Dealings, he did noa
only
Of E N G L A N D. 195
only attain to much Greatnefs and Honour, but to Inter-regm
a vaft Eftate. He was brought into all the Mock
Parliaments to give Aim to his Mafters ; and it is
believed that he had a great Hand with his Brother
Noel in felling fome Scores of thofe Gentlemen as
Slaves, to the Barbadoes and other Plantations, that
were accufed for being in the Bufmefs at Salijbury
with Mr. Penruddock and others ; and was affifting
in that Committee of Safety, whereof Fleetwood fat
as Prince ; but now where he is, and what will be-
f^ll him next, is well worth the Knowledge.
' % Henry Mildmay^ that Prodigy of Ingrati-
tude, was Servant to the late King, and not only
knighted by him, but his Majefty was pleafed alfo
in his own Perfon to become an Advocate for the
obtaining Alderman Holiday's Widow for him ; who,
being alfo made Mailer of the King's Jewels, moft
impudently had the Face to appear and fit as one of
his gracious Sovereign's Judges. He is a (hallow
Fellow, by fome furnamed Sir Wbimfey Mildmay >
a peftilent Republican, and a Rumper.
' % Augujlin Garland^ an old Slander in the Long
Parliament, an indefatigable Stickler in moft Com-
mittees ; a notable Commonwealth's- Man, and a
refolute Oppoier of the Government in a Single Per-
fon ; therefore out of Date upon the Intrufion of
Oliver Cromwell ; but in again upon the Reftoratioa
of the Rump, of which Fraternity he was free. He
was alfo one of his late Majefty 's moft cruel Judges.
' £ John Bark/lead^ the Son of Michael Bark-
Jlead, Goidfmith, who alfo was himfelf in his Mi-
nority a petty Goldfmith in the Strand^ a very emp-
ty fhallow-pated Perfon ; therefore the moft fit to
be cajoled and wrought on, being of the mallable
Temper : He forfook his Shop, fhuffled himfelf into
the Camp, where, more by Fortune than Valour, he
climb'd up to be a Colonel, and after Lieutenant of
the Tower ; adopted to be an Alderman, Major-
General of Middlefex, a fevere Perfecutor of the
King's Party ; who alfo was one of his Judges • A,
thorough- paced Agent for all Governments, arid a
moft active Imp of Oliver the Ufurper.
N 2 « 1 Edmund
196 The Parliamentary HISTORV
Jnter-regnum. ' % Edmund Harvey > late a poor Silk-Man, after-
r6S9- wards made a Colonel. He got into the Bifliop of
^— •v— -^ London' sHouk ; and by his juggling Infinuation crept
March. jnto ^ (Juftorn-Houie, and was one of the Farmers
thereof; but, being accufed of fraudulent Dealings
there, was difcarded by Crc?nwell^ though he had
feafted him before moft magnificently at Fulham. I
never heard any that could fpeak of his Honefty or
Courage, being, as to the laft, a little inconfiderable
Rat ; and, as to the ether, a factious Rumper, and
one of his Majefty's cruel Judges.
* % Thomas Harrifon, a Man of very mean Birth,
being the Son of a Butcher in or near Newcalfte-
•under-Line : He was Servant to Mr. Hulk an At-
torney at Law ; but, preferring War before Peace,
got into the Army, and, having the Knack of Cant-
ing, was believed to be a Perfon of furpafling Piety ;
and fo infmuated himfelf from one Command to
another, till he became Major- General of Wales^
being dangeroufly anabaptiftical in his Tenets, and
a perfect Hater of orthodox Divines and a Devourer
of their Maintenance ; he was very lately a Preacher,
and indeed Head of a re-baptized Congregation in
London ; he was clearly againft Monarchy, not
only fitting a malicious Judge againft his Majefty,
but was one of thofe five who appointed the Time
and Place for the King's Execution.
* J William Heveningham, of Norfolk, a Gentle-
man of a moft antient Extraction, and a very fair
Eftate, who was conceived to be drawn away more
out of fome Animofity than Intereft : He was,
amongft the reft, feduced to be one of the King's
Judges, and was alfo one of the Rumpers.
' J John Okey, his Parentage was as mean asr his
Calling, fome deeming him a Drayman, others a
Yeaftman ; but he was a Stoaker in a Brewhoufe
at IJlington^ and next a moft poor Chandler near
Lion-Kfy in Thames-Street^ where living very poor
and indigent, he converted his blue Apron into a Buff-
Coat, and became a Colonel of Dragoons ; a Fellow
©f greater Bulk than Brains, and Strength than Wit
Of ENGLAND 197
•r Confcience, othervvife he would have had more inter-regmim.
Grace than to have fat one of the King's Judges, 1659.
and be one of that moft impudent Committee that *-— ' -v*—1 J
iigned the Warrant for his Death, and appointed
the Time and Place for his Execution.
' :£ John Down*) Colonel, a Perfon who did ftrike
whilft the Iron was hot, and fo with his Sword
opened the Trap Door to his Fortune j one that
hath thriven well by the Times, having raifed him-
felf to a confiderable Eftate j an Enemy to Mo-
narchy, and a main Man for a Commonwealth, be-
ing one of the King's Judges, and a Hater of any
Government in one Single Perfon ; one of the Coun-
cil of State in Fifty-one, and an infeparable Rumper
to the laft Gafp.
' t Jomes Temple^ of SuJ/ex, one of the Long
Parliament, a Colonel, and Governor of Banbury-
Caftle in Suffix 9 got the Eftate of Sir Charles Shelly \
violently, by Order from the Rump Parliament,
under the Notion of his being Grand-child of a Pa-
pift, and poflefled it without giving any due Ac-
count for it, pretending his good Service ; and, upon
the Interruption of the Rump, he took to the King's
Bench, and afterwards came out by the Five Pound
A6L The chief Service he did was to be one of
his Prince's cruel Judges, and a conftant Rumper
to the laft.
' J Simon Mayne, of Buckinghamjhtre ; one of ,
the Long Parliament, a great Committee -Man,
wherein he licked his Fingers. He was one of his
Prince's cruel Judges, and a conftant Rumper to
the laft.
' Matthew Tomlinfon, before thefe Times, was
a Gentleman Ufher to a Lady, and afterwards be-
came a Major in the Army, and then a Colonel j
was fent a Commiflioner into Ireland by Oliver
Cromwell, and was knighted there by Henry Crom-
•vuelli the fecond Son of that Tyrant. He was one
that condu6ted the King to the Scaffold, and hath
got a great Eftate.
' J John Dixwell, Burgefs for Dover in the Long
Parliament , was a Colojnel of Foot, a great Com-
N 3 mittee
198 *rhe Parliamentary HISTORY*
Inter-regnum. mittee-Man in Ktnt% one of the Council of State,
^*59' one of his Prince's cruel Judges, and a conftant
March, Rumper to the laft.
' J Ifaac Euer. He was but a Serving- man at
firft, as it is reported ; his Zeal led him into the
Wars, and fo he became a Colonel. He had much
Land given him in Ireland for his good Service, and
for being one of the cruel Judges of his Prince.
* J Sir Gregory Norton, of Suffex* a Man but of
a mean Fortune before thefe Times, as it is faid ;
had Richmond- Houfe and much of the King's Goods
for an inconfiderable Value, only they were the
Price of Royal Blood, he being one of his Prince's
Judges, and a conftant Rumper to the laft.
' Edmund Prideaux, formerly Commiflioner to
the Great Seal, worth 1500 /. per Annum ; did, by
Ordinance, praclife within the Bar, as one of the
King's Counfel, worth 5000 /. per Annum ; and, af-
ter that, was Attorney-General, worth what he
pleafed to make it ; Poftmafter for all the Inland
Letters, at Six-pence the Letter, worth 1 5,000 /.
per Annum ; and he got it thus, the Lord Stanhope;
thePoftmafters, and Carriers of England, complained
in Parliament againft Mr. Withering! and others,
touching the carrying of Letters, whereupon the
Benefit of foreign Letters was given to the Earl of
Warwick, worth more than 7000 /. per Annum, and
Inland Letters to Mr. Prideaux. Was not this
good Juftice ?
' * Thomas Pury, fen. firft a Weaver in Gloucejter*
then an ignorant Country Sollicitor, had 3000 /. gi-
ven him ; and, Mr. Gerrara"s Place in the Petty-
Bagg, worth 400 /. per Annum.
* Thomas Pury, jun. Son to the Elder, in the firft
Year of the Parliament, Servant to Mr. Townjhend*
an Attorney of Staples- Inn, Receiver of the King's
Rents in Gloucejierjhire and Wilts* Clerk of the
Peace of Gloucester /hire, worth 200 /. per Annum*
and Captain of Foot and Horfe.
* Francis Pierepointhzth the Archbiftiop of York's
Lands, lying in Nottinghamjhire.
« William
Of ENGLAND.
' William Pierepoint hath 7000 /. given him, ami inter-regnum.
ail the Earl of Kingjion's Eftate, (being fequeftered) ^ ^659-
worth 10,000 /.
< * "John Palmer, Do£r.or of Phyfic, Mafter of
All- Souls, in Oxford^ in Dr. Shelden's Room ; a
Place which was proper only for a Divine.
* * Sir John Palgrave, Colonel at the Siege of
Neivark.
* Charles Pynime, Captain of a Troop of Horfe,
Son to the great Incendiary.
' + William Purefoyy Colond and Governor of
Coventry^ fought refolutely againft the Crofs in the
Market-place at Warwick ; and againft the antient
Monuments at the Earl's Chapel, in St. Afary's
Church there, who took the Mourners in Brafs to
be Monks and Friers, for which Ije had 15007.
given him ; but, when he (hould have fought with
the Enemy, hid himfelf in a Barley Field, (for which
a Waterman, who had been his Soldier, afterwards
refufed to carry him) and was one of the King's
Judges.
' + Ifaac Pennington^ once Lieutenant of the
Tower, a Year and a half Lord Mayor of London
before his Time, had 7000 /. given him, and hath
Store of Bifhops Lands ; yet this will not yield ten
Shillings in the Pound to his Creditors. He was one
of the King's Judges.
' Henry Pelham, Recorder in Lincoln^ in the Place
of Sir Charles Dalifon.
' Alexander Popham, Colonel.
* * Edward Pophamt Colonel, afterwards one
of the Generals at Sea.
1 Francis Roits^ Piovoft of Eaton in Dr. Steward's
Place, worth 1000 /. per Annum. He was Speaker of
the pretended Parliament, which furrendered their
Authority to the Protector Oliver^ and was after-
wards one of his Council, and a Lord of his Other
Houfe.
' Sir Benjamin Rudyard had 5000 /. given him.
' Robert Reynolds had 20OO /. given him, befides
Abingdon-Hall^ and the Lands worth 400 /. per
Annum j hath bought a good Pennyworth of the Bi-
fhops
March.
2OQ The Parliamentary HISTOYR
Inter-regmim. &ops Land, and, as it is reported, had 20,000 /. be-
1659. yond Seas, as he made appear upon his Marriage,
befides the Sollicitor-General's Place.
' Edward RoJJiter, Colonel and General of all the
Lincolnshire Forces, and Governor of Belvoir-Caftle,
but fmce a Promoter of the Nation's Happinefs.
' * Sir Francis RuJJell, Colonel, Brother-in-Law
to Oliver Cromwell, and one of his Lords.
' * Thomas RainSborough, Governor of Woodftock^
Taunton, and once Admiral of England.
* Alexander Rigby, Colonel and Governor of Bo~
Jlon, and one of the Barons of the Exchequer.
* Richard Rofe, hath the Houfe and Furniture of
one Bailev, the King's Glazier, which he got thus :
He and Mr. J. Trenchard went to feveral Houfes
about the Strand to hire Lodgings for Malignants,
gave good Rates, but would have the beft Furni-
ture; and they, being Members of the Houfe, would
fecure them ; Mr. Bailey was one Mr. Rofe caufed
to be fequeftered, and got it to himfelf, for which
he and Mr. Trenchard fell out ; but Bailey, though
an honeft Man, got not his Goods again, which
crofies the Proverb.
* John Roll, Merchant, had 15007. given him,
out of Sir John Worfmbant* Eftate.
* Humphrey Sal-way, the King's Remembrancer
in Mr. Fan/haw's Place, worth 400 /. per Annum.
* Sir Walter Strickland, Agent in Holland for
the two Houfes of Parliament, worth 5000 /. per
Annum, or what more he was pleafed to make it ;
was of all the Mock Parliaments, and of the Pro-
tector's Council, and Captain of his Foot- Guard in
Whitehall. He was lately one of the Common-
wealth-Makers of the Committee of Safety, fo
called.
4 John Sehlen had 50007. offered him, which he
refufed to accept, and kept his Confcience.
' * John Stephens had iooo/. given him out of
the Lord Aft/ey's Compofition.
6 *J Henry Smith made one of the Six Clerks,
worth iooo/. per Ann. one of the King's Judges,
and a conftant Rumper.
6 * Richard
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« * Richard Salway, once a Grocer's 'Prentice, Inter-regnum,
and their Spokefman in one of their tumultuous 1659.
Hurries to the Long Parliament, and ever fince was *— -~ v— • •*
taken Notice of for a great Talker. He was a main Marck«
Man in the Committee of Safety ; for which the
Rump, when they fat again, rebuked him gently,
as one that had gone aftray from the Good Old
Caufe ; a Major in the Army, and a great Pur-
chafer.
' Algernon Sydney, Governor of Dover-Caftle.
4 * Philip Skippon, Serjeant-Major-General of
the Army, Major-General of London, and Governor
of Brijtoly a Member of all the Parliaments, one of
Noll's Council, and a Lord of his Other Houfe ; a
forward Man in the decimating Oppreffion. He
hath gotten a vaft Eftate, hath been of all Parties,
firft a Prefbyterian, till Philip Nye opened his Eyes,
and {hewed him the Way to worldly Greatnefs.
' % Anthony Stapley, Colonel, and Governor of
Chlchefter^ and one of his Prince's Murderers.
* ''John Sydenbam, Colonel of Horfe and Foot,
Governor of Weymoutb and Melcomb- Regis, and
Commander in Chief in Dorfetjhire, had looo/.
given him ; one of Cromwell's Council, a Lord of
his Other Houfe, had a great Command in the Ifle
of Wight, and was one of the Lords Commiffioners
of the Treafury. He was lately one of the Com-
mittee of Safety, and a great Rumper.
* Richard Shuttleworth, Colonel, and had very
many of the Recufants Lands in Lancajhire in Se-
queftration, himfelf being Chief for Sequeftrations
there.
' * Auguftin Skinner, by his Induftry in the Ser-
vice, hath purchafed the Bifhop of Roche ft er's Ma-
nor of Brumley, in Kent, at a very low Rate.
' * Robert Scowen had 20OO/. given him towards
his Lofles, but hath the Efteem of an honeft Man.
« J William Say, a leud Lawyer, dealt much in
Fen-Lands j one of his Prince's Murderers, a ftately
Committee-Man in Kent, and Speaker for ten Days
to the Rump, while Lenthall was Tick or fullen.
' Francis
2O2 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. < Francis Thorpe ', Receiver of the Money in York-
l659« Jhtre^ charged by fome of the Country for detaining
C"rrv"r""' 25,000 /. and one of the Barons of the Exchequer,
for which he hath iooo/. per Ann. befides the Pro-
fits of the Place; a bitter Enemy to his Prince, and
a Creature of the Rump's making.
« *t Peter Temple, Captain of a Troop of Horfe,
a great Committee-Man, a conftant Rumper, and
one of the King's Judges.
* Sir Thomas '[renckard had I20O/. given him ;
Thus he married his Daughter to a Malignant, gave
Security for the Payment of I20O/. Portion, befides
Parliamentary Courtefies ; got his Son-in-Law fe-
queftered, discovers the Debt, and had it given him
for his Fidelity to the State. A neat Parliamentary
Way to pay Portions.
* John Trencbard, Brother to Sir Thomas Trench-
ard> but a better Father- in-Law. He was Gover-
nor of Warebam^ married two of his Daughters to
Mr. Bingham and Mr. Sydenham, procured them to
be made Colonels of Horfe and Foot, and Governors
of feveral Garrifons ; got them to be chofen Mem-
bers of the Houfe of Commons, and to be made free
of his own Trade by their Father's Copy.
' Thomas Toll had the Cuftomer's Place of Lynn-
Regis, in his Son's Name, worth 300 /. per Ann.
yet it is another's Grant.
* Sir "John Trevor had 9000 /. out of the Marquis
of Winchefter's Eftate, and the Marquis was put to
his and Mr. Wallop's Allowance for divers Years to-
gether : Befides Richmond-Park and Ground, and
the great Park at Nonfuch^ he had a Monopoly of
150O/. per Ann. out of Newcaflle Coals.
( Benjamin Valentine had 5000 /. given him.
' Samuel Vaffel had iooo/. given him.
* £ John Ven, Colonel, Governor of Windhr^
and one of the King's Judges, had 4000 /. given
him for Lofles, befides the Plunder of the Country
about Windfor, much of the King's Houfhold Stuff,
as Hangings, Linen, and Bedding.
4 Sir Henry Vane^ fen. hath the Biftiop of Dur-
batns Manor, Park, Demefne of Evenwood, and had
5000 /„
Of E N G L A N D. 203
5000 /. given him: He was alfo Chairman for the
King's, Queen's, and Prince's Revenue, the Epi- j659-
tome whereof is Lord-Treafurer. His Man Cozens
was Clerk to the Committee, and got 1500 or
2000 /. per Ann, by it.
And if the Man fucb Profits have.
What mujl be then that keeps the Knave ?
* Buljlrode Whitlocke, once a Counfellor at Law
of the Middle-Temple, then a Member of the Long
Parliament, where he profited much, advanced his
Intereft, and became Commiflioner of the Great Seal.
Before the Troubles he was an intimate Friend
to Sir Richard Lane, who, going to Oxford, entruft-
ed him with hisChambers in theTetnpIe, of which,
with all the Goods and an excellent Library, he
hath kept Pofleffion ever fince ; and would not own
that ever he knew fuch a Man, when Sir Richard's
Son was brought to wait upon him in his Greatnefs.
He was fent Ambaffador into Sweden in great State,
and, when his Matters were turned out, a&ed there
for the Protector. He was fince Commiflioner of
the Treafury under him, and one of his Lords of
the Other Houfe. Under Dick he was made Com-
miflioner of the Seal again ; and, he being difcarded,
wheeled about and worfliipped the Rump ; and,
when Lambert unfeated them, he became Prefident
of the Committee of Safety; fince which he has had
the Leifure to confider of his former honeft Aftions,
for which he had 2000 /. given him at one Time,
and hath a good Fleece, and Heir to Lilly the Aftro-
loger.
* Sir Thomas Widdrington, a Lawyer. By his
Practice, and a formal Compliance with the Enfla-
vers of thefe Nations, he hath advanced his Fortune.
He was lately Commiflioner of the Treafury, and of
the Great Seal. He was Speaker of that Parliament
that betrayed the Liberties of the People of Eng-
land, by making A6b of incredible Injuftice. He
put on Oliver's Robes at his Inftallation, and made
him
204 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-rcgnum. him a worthy Oration : For which good Service he
• il*r?l _j was made Chief Baron of the Exchequer. His fly
March. Formality reftored him to the Great Seal fince the
Rump's re-fitting. No doubt he is a weakly Man,
and has more of the Willow than the Oak.
' % Edward Whaley, formerly a Woollendraper,
or petty Merchant, in London; where not thriving,
and being much in Debt, he fled into Scotland till
the Wars began, which he hath found a more gain-
ful Trade, and in which he was Commiflary-Ge-
neral of Horfe. He was of the later Parliaments,
and a Promoter of Oliver's ambitious Defigns and
his Country's Slavery ; for which he was made a
Major- General of two or three Counties, and a
Lord of the Other Houfe : But the reftoring of the
Rump check'd this little Man's Greatnefs, till Lam-
bert turn'd them out, and then he was fent into
Scotland to defire Monke to be quiet. He was one
of the accurfed Crew that dared to fit in Judgment
upon his Sovereign.
* Sir Henry Vane, jun. Son to the Elder, totally
outed Sir William Rujjell, and was fole Treafurer
to the Navy; a Place at leaft worth 6ooo/. per Ann.
in Time of War, efpecially when the Lord-Trea-
furer was his Friend, more when he was his Father.
He was a Difcontent during all Oliver's and Ri-
chard's Government. He is, no doubt, a Man of
much Religion, and would become one of the Rulers
of Ifrael, if the intended Match between his Son
and Lambert's Daughter had not been fpoiled by the
Reftitution of the Rump.
' Sir William Waller loft two Armies, and yet a
Gainer. He was afterwards one of the eleven im-
peached Members, and is become an honeft Man,
and a Patriot of his Country.
' Sir Thomas Walfingham had the Honour of El~
tbam given him that was tb,e Earl of Dorfet's, the
middle Park and an Houfe which were Mr. White's^
and had cut down 5000 /. worth of Timber Trees,
but hath fcarce one left of his own to make a Gib'
bet.
« *J Thomas
O/ E N G L A N D. 205
c *J Thomas Waite, Colonel, Governor of "Burley- Inter-regnum.
on-the-Hill, where he thrived fo well that he bought l659-
500 /. per Ann. He was one of the King's Judges. **" ITv-ri"J-
« f Rowland Wilfon, Colonel, one of his Prince's
Judges ; and, as it is faid, died with the Conceit of
it, being accufed by a Parrot for killing of his King.
* Thomas Weftrow, Captain under Sir Michael
Livefey, and hath gotten the Biftiop of Worcefter's
Manor of Hartlebury.
' Sir Chrijlopher Wray, Colonel, fmce dead.
« * William Wray, his Son, Colonel.
* William White, Colonel, and was Treafurer of
War to the Army in the North under the Com-
mand of the old Lord Fairfax.
' Serjeant Wylde, Lord Chief Baron, had, after
the hanging of Capt. Burley, xooo/. out of the
Privy Purfe of Derby- Houfe. 'Tis thought he af-
forded a great Pennyworth in his Service, which
another would not have done for io,ooo/. and it is
affirmed he had iooo/. more upon the Acquittal of
Major Ralph ; fo it is all one to him whether he
hangs or hangs not. He lived retired during the
Prote&orian Government, but was lately reftored to
the Exchequer for being a Lover of the Rump.
* Robert Wallop had n,ooo/. out of the Marquis
of Winchejler's Eftate, as it is reported.
' J Valentine Walton, Colonel, and Governor of
Lynn-Regis, purchafed the Queen's Manor of Sc~
merjham, in the Ifle of Ely, for a fmall Matter,
which he has improved to a large Revenue by De-
coys, &c. which the Rage of the People has lately
demolifhed utterly. He was one of the King's
Judges.
« J Sir Hardrefs Waller, Major-General of the
Army, a Colonel of Horfe, a great Committee-
Man, and one of thofe five who were appointed to
confider of the Time and Place of his late Majefty's
Execution, which they appointed before his own
Door. He, with his Affiftants, were alfo the King's
Judges.
* It was reported that Stephen Kirk, Daniel Cox,
Robert Wakeman, and John Stinte, Prime Clerk*
2o6 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Liter- regnum. and Sollicitors to their Committees, fhared noo/.
l659- pf Sir Edward Seabrigkt's Money, to keep him from
being a Delinquent ; and that Records were taken
off the File, and others put in their Room, who
gained great Eftates to themfelves. The Truth of
this were worth inquiring after.
' How many of thofe Members have undertaken
to fecure Malignants Houfes and Good ; but, in the
End, have taken them all for their own Ufe. What
Caftles, Houfes, Chafes, and Parks have they have
hadj and the Public no Benefit thereof, is worth the
Inquiry : Befides the King's Revenues and Compo-
fitions, which amounteth to ********.
* Befides thefe Offices, Commands, and Gratui-
ties, every Member of the Houfe of Commons, be-
ing in all 516, are, by their own Order, allowed
4/. per Week a Man, which amounts to 107,3287.
per Ann. By the Ordinance for fequeftcring Delin-
quents, April I, 1643, it was declared that their
Eftates fliould go for Maintenance of the Public
Affairs ; and feveral other Ordinances defigned Bi-
fhops Lands for Payment of 200,000 /. Public Debt;
yet you may fee by this that Delinquents Eftates
and Biftiops Lands were by the Members of Parlia-
ment fhared amongft themfelves, whilft the Public
Debt is unfatisfied, and the Excife and Taxes held
up.
c Befides all this, the Incomes they railed upon
the People, under Colour of the War, amounted to
Three Millions per Ann. at leaft.
* And did they not intend to perpetuate their Par-
liament, and entail their Seffion (as the Priefthood
on Levi) on confiding Families to furnifh them with
Votes, as, Sir Gilbert Gerrard and his two Sons,
Sir Robert tiarley and his two Sons, three Fiennes^
three Afljes, four Stephens, four Pelhams, four Her-
berts, four Temples, Sir Thomas "Jervois and his Son,
Sir Henry Vane and his Son, two Purys, two Cba~
loners, two Bacons, two Pierepoints, two Bonds, two
Onflows, two Pools, two Lenthalls, &c. And that
our Ecclefiaftics may comply with cur Temporal
Go-
Of ENGLAND. 207
Governors, the Houfe abolifh (as fuperftkious, be- inter-regnunn
caufe legal) the Convocation of learned Divines, re- -if S9*
gularly chofen by the King's Writ, and duly ele&ed ^"-?^~
by the Clergy ; and the Houfe of Commons nomi-
nated an Aflembly of gifted Divines, for that there
is not an Aflembly- Man but what is thruft into
another's Benefice/
We have now gone thro' the Hiftorians, Memo-
rialifts, and other Authorities of thefe Times, up to
the Diflblution of this Parliament. What happened
between and the Meeting of the next Convention (for
Parliament it cannot be called) is not much to our
Purpofe. But, in this Interval, Dr. Price tells us, the
General was founded as to his Intentions for refto-
ring the King, by Sir 'John Grenvitle, fent over pur-
pofely, being a near Relation of Monkis^ and very
intimate with him. The DoiStor has left us a full
Account of what pafled when Sir "John delivered
the King's Letter firft to the General ; of his Shy-
nefs in receiving it, and at laft of his open Declara-
tion to Sir "John Grenvil/e, * That he hoped the
King would forgive what was paft, both in his
Words and Actions, according to the Contents of
his gracious Letter ; that his Heart was ever faith-
ful to his Majefty, but he was never in a Condition
to do him Service till the prefent Time.' He bki
him ailure the King, ' That he- was now not only
ready to obey his Commands, but to ffcrifice his
Life and Fortune in his Service/
After fuch a Declaration, from a Man who had
it in his Power, we may fuppofe the King's Refto-
ration was not far off. And, indeed, fome of the
warmeft and ruoft powerful Men againft his Fa-
ther faw the Thing fo inevitable, that they began
to think of making Terms for themfelves. Thefe,
we are told, were earneft with the General, That
if the King muft be brought in by the next Parlia-
ment, he fhould be admitted upon no other Terms
than the Conceffions of the Ifle of Wight. But
thefe Articles were thought t<jo ftrait for Monarchy,
and
208 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. and wholly deftru&ive to the Conftitution of the
1659- Church, as governed before thofe Troubles. Be-
v— *v---» fides, King Charles the Firft yielded to thefe hard
arc * Articles, at a Time when he was a Prifoner in Ca-
riJbrook-Cajlle, in the Year 1648 ; and the Parlia-
ment voting them to be a fufficient Ground for a
Treaty with the King, the Army turned out all the
Voters, who were afterwards called the fecluded
Members. However, adds the Doctor, to follicit
the General, That the King's Reftoration might be
hampered with his Father's Conceffions, in the Ifle
of Wight, was no idle or unreafonable Proportion,
from fuch as found themfelves concerned now to
look about them. But this Propofal being judged to
be anticipating the A&s of the enfuing Convention,
or Parliament, it was laid aflde by the General, be-
ing alfo inconfiftent with his Defign of reftoring the
.King, without any Condition whatfoever.
The King being now made thoroughly acquaint-
ed, by Means of Sir John Grenville^ with the Gene-
ral's Intentions in his Favour, began to entertain
more certain Hopes of his Reftoration than ever he
had done before. But ftill the Determination of
the whole Matter refted principally on the Refolu-
tions of the next Parliament, whofe Writs of Elec-
tion were almoft wholly returned by the Middle of
jfpril, 1660. In the mean Time one Interruption
happened, which might have proved of dangerous
Confequence, if it had not been timely prevented.
It is faid that, by the Connivance of the Under-
Keepers, Lambert was fuffered to efcape out of the
Tower ; and he being of a boifterous and daring
Spirit, and well beloved by the Soldiery, it was
thought he might blow up a Flame not eafy to be
cxtinguifhed, if not taken in Time. The General
had quick Notice of this Efcape, and was too wife
not to take Care to prevent Lambert's Defigns. A
Proclamation was firft iflued out againft him and all
his Abettors, declaring them Traitors ; for he foon
muttered together a Number of Men of the fame ill
Principle* with himfelf, ready to overturn any Go-
vernment
Of E N G L A N D. 209
vernment in which they had no Share or Power. Inter-rcgnum,
\Vith thefe Lambert intended to rendezvous at Edge- lf>59«
hill'y and the General was preparing to march in *— "•"«'"""-«-'
Perfon againft him ; but hearing that his Party was pn "
inconfiderable, he altered hisPurpofe, andfentCol.
Ingoldjby on that Expedition. The Colonel foon
brought Matters to a Crifis ; and, without Blood-
ihed, took Lambert and his chief Officers Prifoners,
and brought them to London, where this /aftious
Perfon, with Gobbet and Creed, two others of the
fame Stamp, were, by the Council of State, com-
mitted clofe Prifoners to the Tower. This happened
the very Day before the Meeting of the Parliament.
And, furely, there could not be a more proper
Crifis for fuch a Meeting, which now confifted of
both Lords and Commons ; for it was not difputed
by any who called and gave them this Authority,
the moft rebellious in the Three Kingdoms then
fubmitting to it. Now it appeared, fays bur Re-
verend Author, that God's Mercy, the King's Cle-
mency, the General's Conduit, and this Parlia- ;
ment's Sitting, prevented all Fears, and the EfFufion
of Blood, either by the Sword of War, or of Juftice.
For none fuffered upon the old Score, but thofe
who fat in Judgment on the late King, And figned
to his Execution ; and even fome of thefe were
pardoned. Some few others were alfo thought fifc
to be exempted from Pardon, by the Parliament, as
•Sir Henry Vane and Hugh Peters, the- Guilt of
which laft Sectary, our Author adds, was thought
greater than fome of the higheft of the Criminals.,
who fat in a Court of Mock- Juftice up'ofl the Life "*
of their Sovereign.
But before we begin with the Proceedings of this
ever-memorable Convention of two Eftates of the
Kingdom, we fhall infert the Names of thofe Mem-
bers who compofed the lower of them, viz. the"
Houfe of Commons ; referving a Lift of the Peers
to another Place, when there were more of thenV~
together, and their King at the fame Time execu-
ting his refpeftive Office of Dignity and Priprity.
VOL. XXIL O kl>#":
210 The Parliamentary HISTORY
A LIST of the Names of the KNIGHTS, CITIZENS, BUR-
GESSES, and BARONS of the Cinque Ports, of England and
Wales, os they were returned to the Crown -Office, for the Par-
liament begun at Weftminfter, April 25, 1660, commonly called
the CONVENTION PARLIAMENT, which was fitting at the
Return of King Charles, and voted his Reparation. i
Where there was
BEDFORDSHIRE.
Bedford T.
BERKSHIRE.
New-Windfor B.
Reading B.
Abingdon B.
Wallingford^.
BUCKINGHAM-
SHIRE.
Buckingham T.
Wicomb B.
Aylejbury B.
Amerjham B.
From * Pamphlet
a double Return, thofe in the Italic Character
were not allowed to Jit.
TJ Obert Lord Bruce.
j\^ Samuel Brown, Serjeant at Law.
Sir Samuel Luke, Knt.
Humphrey Winch, Efq;
Sir Robert Pye, Knt.
Richard Powell, Efq;
Alexander Blake, Efq;
Roger Palmer, Efq;
Richard Winwood, Eff,
Thomas Rich, Efq;
John Blagrave, Efq;
Sir John Stonehoufe, Bart.
Sir John Lenthall, Knt. and Bart.
Kungerford Dunch, Efq; made his Election
for Cricklade. New Writ ordered to be if-
fued May I.
Thomas Saunders, Efq;
Thomas Tyrrel, Serjeant at Law, one of the
Lords Commiflioners. Made one of the
Juftices of the Court of Common Pleas, and
a new Writ ordered to be Sflfued July 28,
William Boyer, Efq;
Sir Richard Temple, Bart.
John Dormer, Efq;
Edmund Petty, Efq;
Richard Brown, Efq;
Thomas Scott, Efq\
Richard Ingoldfby, Efq;
Thomas Lee, Efq;
Charles Cheyne, Efq;
Thomas Proby, Efq;
Wendo-
of the Times, which has been arefWJy compared with the
Of
Wendwer B.
Marlow B.
CAMBRIDGE-
SHIRE.
Cambridge Uni-
verfity.
Cambridge T.
CHESHIRE.
Cbefler C.
CORNWALL.
Dunchevlt, alias
Launcefton B.
Lejkard B.
Le/t-witbielB.
Truro B.
Bodmyn B.
Heljlon B.
CamelfordB.
E N G L A N D. 211
Richard Hampden, Efn;
John Baldwin, Efq;
Peregrine Hoby, Efq;
William Borlace, Efq;
Thomas Wendy, Efq;
Ifaac Thornton, Efq;
General George Monke, made his Election
for Devon/hire. New Writ ordered to be
iflued May 22.
Thomas Crouch, A. M.
Sir Dudley North, Knt. of the Bath.
Sir Thomas Willis, Bart.
Sir George Booth, Bart.
Thomas Manwaring, Efq;
John Ratcliff, Efq;
William Ince, Efq;
Sir John Carew.
JHugh Bofcawen, Efq;
Thomas Gewen, Efq;
Sir John Clobery.
Edward Elliot, Efq;
John Connock, Efq;
John Robinfon, Efq;
Thomas Johnfon^ Efq;
John Clayton, Efq;
Walter Moyle, Efq;
Henry Ford, Efq;
Walter Vincent, Efq;
Edward Bofcawen, Efq;
Henry Roberts, Efq;
Henry Roberts, Efq;
John Scilly, Efq;
Sir Peter Kllligrew, Knt.
Thomas Robinfon, Efq;
---- Godolphin, Efq;
Sir Peter Killigrew, Knt.
Sir Peter Killigrew, Knt.
William Cotton, Efq;
Henry Nicol, Efq;
Samuel Trclawney, Efq;
John Buller, Efq; "
John Keneal, Efq;
O 2 Grar^
212 The Parliamentary HISTORY
SrampoundB. Hugh Bofcawen, Efq; made his Ele&ion fc:
- Cornwall. New Writ ordered to be ilTuert
Augujl 14.
Thomas Herle, Efq;
Zafllwo B. Henry Seymour, Efq;
John Trelawney, Efq;
George Sirelley, Efq\
'Nathaniel Moyle, Efq;
?'enryn B.' Samuel Enys, Efq;
James Cobins, Efq;
'l-'regony ]$. Edward Bofcawen, Efq; made his Election
for Trttre. New Writ ordered to be iiiued
Augujl 25.
John Temple Efq;
IVilliam Tridtnham, Efq~y
Dr. C/argis.
2'jjiney B. Francis Gerrard, Efq;
Charles Pymme, Efq; made his Election for
Minehead. New Writ ordered to be ifiued
^May 15.
~(. I-vfs B. John St.Aubin, Efq;
Edward Nofworthy, Efq;
Barnes Pread, Efq\
Peter CV/y, Efq;
.-?y B, Edward Herle, Efq;
John Barton, Efq;
^zrmciins B. John Elliot, Efq;
Richard Knightley, Efq;
,>/B. Thomas Carew, Efq;
Heneage Finch, Efq; made his Election for
the City of Canterbury ; and a new Writ
ordered to be ifTued May 5.
Humphry Bur ace, Efq;
-port B. Sir Francis Drake, Bart.
William Morrice, Efq; made his Election for
Plymouth. New Writ ordered to be iflued
July 12.
B. William Tredingham, Efq;
Arthur Spry, Efq;
John Clobery, Efq-t
\. Robert Roll, 'Efq;
Edward
Of E N G L A N D.
21
CUMBERLAND.
Car li Jit C.
Cockermouth B.
DERBYSHIRE.
Derby T.
DEVONSHIRE,
Exeter C.
Totnefs B.
Plymouth B.
Earnjlaple B.
Plumpton B.
Tavijlock B.
mouthy Hard-
nefs B.
Beralflone B.
Edward Herle,' Efq; made his Election ft..
•Fowey. New Writ ordered to be iflueo
.Afoy 14.
Col. Lord Charles Howard.
Sir Wilfrid Lawfon, Knt.
William Brifco, Efq;
Jeremy Tolhur, Efq;
Richard Tolfon, Efq;
Wilfrid Lawfon, Efq;
Henry Cavendifh, Vifcount Mansfield.
John Ferrers, Efq;
John Dalton, Efq;
Roger Aleby, Efq;
Lord General Monke, called up to the Houfc
of Peers. New Writ ordered to be iffued
July 16.
Sir John Northcott, Bart.
John Maynard, Serjeant at Law.
Thomas Bampfield, Efq;
Richard Ford, Efq;
Thomas Chafe, Efq;
Thomas Clifford, Efq;
Samuel Trelawney, Efq;
William Morrice, Efq; Secretary of State.
John Maynard^ Serjeant at Law,
Edmund Vowel^ Efq\
John Roll, Efq; '
Nicholas Dennis, Efq;
William Strode, Efq;
Chriftopher Martyn, Efq;
William Ruffel, Efq;
George Howard, Efq;
Ellis Crimes , Efq,
John Hale, Efq;
-- Frederick, Efq;
George Howard, Efq; made his Election for
Tavijlock, New Writ ordered to be iflued
May 30.
John Maynard, Efq;
Sir Francis Drake, Bart.
O 3 Tiverton B,
214 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Tiverton B. Thomas Bampfield, Efq; made his Ele&ion
for Exeter. New Writ ordered to be iflued
June 12.
Robert Shapcot, Efq;
AJhburton B. Sir William Courtney.
John Fowel, Efq;
Honyton B. Sir John Young, Knt.
Samuel Serle, Efq;
Okehampton B. Edward Wife, Efq;
Jofias Calmady, Efq;
Robert Reynolds^ Efg;
DORSETSHIRE. John Fitz-James, Efq;
Robert Coker, Efq;
Pools T. Sir Walter Erie,
George Cooper, Efq;
Dorchefler B. Denzil Hollis, Efq;
John Whiteway, Efq;
Lyme-Regis B. Walter Young, Efq;
Thomas Moor, Efq; made his Election for
Heyte/bury. New Writ ordered to be if-
fued May 14.
Weymouth B. General Edward Montagu.
Sir William Penn, Knt.
Metcomb-RegisB. Henry Weltham, Efq;
Samuel Bond, Efq;
Peter Mid diet on , Efq;
Bridport B. John Drake, Efq;
Henry Henly, Efq;
Ehaftjbury B. Thomas Grove, Efq;
James Baker, Efq;
Warebam B. George Pitt, Efq;
Robert Colleford, Efq;
Corfe-Cajlle B. Ralph Banks, Efq;
John Tregonwell, Efq;
ESSEX. John Bramfton, Efq;
Edward Turner, Efq;
Colchejier B. Sir HarbottleGrimfton, Bart. SPEAKER.
John Shaw, Efq;
Maiden B. Triftam Conyers, Efq;
Henry Mildmay, Efq; declared void. New
Writ ordered to be iflued May 14.
Edward Harris^ Efq',
Harwich
Harwich B.
GLOUCESTER-
SHIRE.
Glouce/ler C.
Cirencejler B.
Tewkefbury B.
HEREFORD-
SHIRE.
Hereford C.
Weobly B.
Of E N G L A N D. ,215
Capel Luckyn, Efq;
Henry Wright, Efq;
Matthew Hale, Serjeant at Law.
Edward Stephens, Efqj
Edward Mafle, Efq;
James Stephens, Efq;
Thomas Matter, Efq;
Henry Powel], Efq;
Henry Capell, Efq;
Richard Dawdefwell, Efq;
Edward Harley, Efq;
William Hinfon, alias Powell, Efq; made his
Election for Dover. New Writ ordered
to be iflued June 4.
Roger Bofworth, M. D.
Herbert Waftfailing, Efq;
~) Declared void, and a
> new Writ ordered to
Leominjler B.
HERTFORD-
SHIRE.
St. Albans B.
Hertford T.
HUNTINGDON-
SHIRE.
Huntingdon T.
KENT.
Canterbury C.
Roche ft er C.
Maidftone B.
James Pitts, Efq;
Richard Wefton, Efq;
jbe iflued July 17.
John Birch, Efq;
Edward Pytt, Efq;
Rowland Litton, Efq;
Henry Caefar, Efq;
Richard Jennings, Efq;
William Foxwift, Efq}
Col. Alban Cox.
James Cooper, Efq;
Arthur Spark, Efq;
Robert Lord Mandevil.
Henry Cromwell, Efq;
John Bernard, Efq;
Nicholas Pedley, Efq;
Sir John Tufton, Bart.
Sir Edward Deering, Bart.
Sir Anthony Archer, Kilt*
Heneage Finch, Efq;
John Manfham, Efq;
Peter Petit, Efq;
Thomas Twifden, Serjeant at Law. On the
3d of July a Writ was ordered to be iflued
to elect one in his room, being made one of
the Juftices of the Court of King's Bench.
Robert Barnham, Efq;
Queen -
B.
B.
Liverpool B.
LEICESTER-
SHIRE.
Lticefter T.
LINCOLNSHIRE.
Lincoln C.
5«y?5» T.
2 1 6 The Parliamentary Hi STOR v
Queenborougb B, James Herbert, Efq;
Sir William Wheeler, Knt.
LANCASHIRE. Sir Robert Bindlos, Bart.
Roger Bradfhaigh, Efq;
Lancajler T. Sir Gilbert Gerrard, Bart.
William Weft, Efq;
Preflon B. Richard Standifli, Efq; 7 Dec]ared_ void, and
Alexander Rigby, Efq| ^a new Wnt ordered
Newton B. Richard Leigh, Efq;
William Banks, jun. Efq;
William Gardiner, Efq; 1 Declared void and
Hugh Forth, Efq;
Sir Ralph Afliton, Bart.
William Hulton, Efq;
William Stanley, Efq;
Gilbert Ireland, Efq;
Thomas Merry, Efq;
Jathew Babinton, Efq;
John Grey, Efq;
Thomas Armftrong, E(q;
Edward Rofliter, Efq;
Sir George Saunderfon, Bart.
John Monfon, Efq;
Thomas Meeres, Efq;
Sir Anthony Irby, Knt.
Thomas Hatcher, Efq;
William Wray, Efq;
Edward King, Efq;
John Hatcher, Efq;
Francis Wingfield, Efq;
'John Weaver, Efq;
Thomas Skipwith, Efq;
John Newton, Efq;
William Ellis, Efq;
Sir William Waller, Knt.
Lancelot Leke, Efq;
Gilbert Gerrard, Efq;
Thomas Clargis, Efq;
William Wild, Efq; Recorder.
Major-General Brown.
John
Grim/by B.
Stamford B.
Grantbam B.
MIDDLESEX.
Weftminfttr C.
London C.
Of ENGLAND.
217
John Robinfon, Efq; Alderman.
William Vincent, Efq;
MONMOUTH- Henry Lord Herbert.
SHIRE. William Morgan, Efq;
Monmouth T. Sir Trevor Williams, Bart.
NORFOLK. Sir Horatio To wnfhend, Bart.
Thomas Richardfon, Baron of Cramond.
Norwich C. William Barnham, Efq;
Thomas Rant, Efq;
Lynn- Regis T. Sir Ralph Hare, Bart.
Edward Walpole, Efq;
Yarmouth T. John Potts, Knr. and Bart.
Sir William D'Oyley, Knt.
Sir John Pa/grave, Bart.
Miles Corbet, Efq\
Thetford B. Sir Philip Wodehoufe, Bart.
Robert Pafton, Efq;
Caflle-Rifing B. Sir John Holland, Bart.
John Spelman, Efq;
NORTHAMP- • Sir Henry Yelverton, Bart.
TONSHIRE. Jchn Crewe, Efq;
Peterborough C. Charles Lord de le Spencer.
Humphry Orme.
Francis St. John^ Efq;
Northampton T. Sir John Norwich.
Richard Rainsford, Efq;
Brackley B. Thomas Crewe, Efq;
William Lifle, jun, Efq;
Higham-FerrcrsJS. Sir Thomas Dacrcs.
Edward Harvey, Efq\
NORTHUMBER- Sir William Fenwick, Bart.
LANTD. Ralph Delaval, Efq;
Newca/lle upon Robert Ellifon, Efq;
Tyne T. William Calverley, Efq;
Berwick T. Sir Thomas Widdrington, one of the Lords
Commiflioners of the Great Seal of Eng-
land. Made his Eledion for York. New
Writ ordered to be iflued May 14.
John Rumworth, Efq;
Morpeth^B. Thomas Widdrington, Efq;
Col. Ralph Knight.
NOT-
NOTTINGHAM-
SHIRE.
Nottingham T.
The Parliamentary HISTORY
William Pierepoint, Efq;
Gilbert Lord Haughton.
Arthur Stanhope, Efq;
Col. John Hutch Jnfon, expelled the Houfe
June 9, and rendered incapable of bearing
any Office of public Truft ; and it was alfo
refolved that he fhould not be within the
Claufe of Exception in the A& of general
Pardon, as to any Fine or Forfeiture of any
Part of his Eftate not purchafed of, or be-
longing to, the Public. A new Writ or-
dered to be iflued June 12.
Eaft-Retford B. William Hickman, Efq;
Wentworth Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare.
OXFORDSHIRE. Sir Thomas Wenman, Knt. afterwards Vif-
count Wenman.
James Fiennes, Efq;
OxfordUmverfity. Thomas Clayton, M. D.
John Mills, LL. D.
Henry Carey, Vifcount Falkland.
James Haxley, Efq;
Sir Thomas Spencer, Bart. -
Edward Atkins, Efq;
Sir Anthony Cope, Bart.
RUTLANDSHIRE. Philip Sherard, Efq;
Samuel Brown, Efq;
Sir William Whitmore, Bart.
Henry Vernon, Efq;
Samuel Jones, Efq;
Thomas Jones, Efq;
Walter Acton, Efq-,
John Bennet, Efq;
Tim. Lyttleton, Serjeant at Law.
John Charlton, Efq;
Great Wenlock B. Sir Francis Lawley, Bart.
Thomas Whitmore, Efq;
BiJhops-Caftle T. William Oakley, Efq;
Edmund Waring, Efq;
SOMERSETSHIRE. George Hnrner, Efq;
Hugh^Smith, Efq;
BriftolC. John Stephens, Efq;
John Knight, fen. Efq;
Bath
Oxford C.
Wood/lock B.
Banlury B.
SHROPSHIRE.
Shrew/bury T.
Bridgnorth B.
Of
Bath C.
Wells C.
Taunton B.
Bridgewater B.
Minebead B.
Ilcbefter B.
Mllborn-Port B.
SOUTHAMPTON-
SHIRE.
Winchefttr C.
Southampton T.
Portfmoutb T.
Yarmouth B.
Petersfield B.
Newport B.
Stockbridgc B.
Newton B*
CbriJl-Cburch B.
B.
ENGLAND.
2I9
Alexander Popham, Efq;
William Prynnc, Efq;
Thomas White, Efq;
Henry Bull, Efq;
William Windham, Efq;
Thomas Gorger, Efq;
Sir Thomas Wroth, Knt.
Francis Rolle, Efq;
Francis Luttrel, Efq;
Charles Pymme, Efq;
Robert Hunt, Efq;
Henry Dunfter, Efq;
William Milborn, Efq;
Michael Mailer, Efq;
Richard Norton, Efq;
John Buckley, Efq;
Thomas Cole, Efq; made his Election for
Petersfield. New Writ ordered to be if-
fued May 29.
John Hooke, Efq;
William Stanley, Efq;
Robert Richbell, Efq;
Richard Norton, Efq; made his Election for
Southampton/hire. New Writ ordered to
be iffued May I.
Henry Whitehead, Efq;
Sir George Leigh, Knt.
Richard Lucy, Efq;
Thomas Cole, Efq;
Arthur Bold, Efq;
Robert Dillington, Efq;
William Oglander, Efq;
Francis Rivet, Efq;
Sir John Evelin, Knt.
Sir John Barrington, Bart.
Sir Henry Worfley, Bart.
John Hildefley, Efq;
Henry Fulfe, Efq;
Robert Wallop, Efq; He was expelled the
Houfe "June n, and excepted out of the
Acl: of general Pardon and Oblivion, in
refpecl only of fuch Pains, Penalties, and
For-
220 'The Parliamentary HISTORY
Forfeitures, (not extending to Life) as
fhould be thought fit to be inflicted on him.
New Writ ordered to be iflued June 12.
Giles Hungerford, Efqj
Lymington B. John Button, Efq;
Henry Bromfield, Efq;
Jlndouer B. John Trott, Efq;
John Collins, Efq;
STAFFORDSHIRE. Edward Bagot, Efq;
William Snead, Efq;
Litcbfeld C. Michael Biddolph, Efq;
Thomas Manners, Efq;
Stafford T. Sir Charles Wolfeley, Bart,
John Swinfen, Efq;
Newcaflle under John Bowyer, Efq;
Line. Samuel Terrick, Efq;
Tamwortb B. Richard Newdigate, Lord Chief Juftke of Ac
Upper Bench.
Thomas Fox, Efq;
SUFFOLK. Sir Henry Felton, Bart.
Henry North, Efq;
Ipfwicb T. Nathaniel Bacon, Efq;
Francis Bacon, Efq;
Dunwicb B. John Rous, Efq;
Henry Beddingfield, Efq;
Orford B. Walter Devereux, Efq;
Allen Broderick, Efq;
jUdloreugb B. Robert Brook, Efq;
Thomas Bacon, Efq;
Sudbury B. John Gurdon, Efq;
Jofeph Brand, Efq;
Robert Cordel, Efq;
Eye B. Charles Cornwallis, Efq;
George Reeve, Efq;
St.EdmundJburyB. Sir Henry Crofts, Knt.
Sir John Duncombe, Knt.
Thomas Chaplin, Efq;
Thomas Clarke, Ej'q;
SURREY. Francis Angier, Baron ofLangford.
Daniel Harvey, Efq;
Soutbwark B. John Langham, Efq;
Thomas Bludworth, Efq;
Blecbingky
Of ENGLAND.
221
Blecbingley B.
Ryegate B.
Guildford B.
Catton B.
Hujlemere B.
SUSSEX.
Chlcbejter C.
Horjham B.
Midburft B.
Lewes B.
Sboreham B.
Bramber B.
Steyning B.
Eafl-Grlnftead'B,
Arundel B.
WARWICKSHIRE
Coventry C.
Sir John Evelin, Knt.
John Goodwyn, Efq;
John Hele, Efq;
Edward Thurland, Efq;
Sir Richard Onflow, Knt.
Arthur Onflow, Efq;
Thomas Turgis, Efq; ~\ Declared void, and
William Oldfield, Efq; I new Writs ordered
Roger James, Efq; ("to be iffued the 5th.
Robert Wood, Efq; J of May.
John Weftbrook, Efq;
Richard Weft, Efq;
Sir John Pelham.
Henry Goring, Efq;
Henry Peckham, Efq;
John Farrington, Efq;
William Cawley, Efq;
Thomas Middleton, Efq;
Hall. Ravenfcroft, Efq;
Will. Willoughby, Efq;
ohn Steward, Efq;
ohn Staple, Efq;
ifel Rivers, Efq;
Herbert Springet, Efq;
Edward Blaker, Efq;
John Byne, Efq;
Edward Eversfield, Efq;
Henry Goring, Efq; made his Election for
SuJ/ex. New Writ ordered to be iffued
May 3.
JohnFagg, Efq;
Marmaduke Grefham, Efq;
George Courthop, Efq;
Roger Lord Broghill.
Henry Vifcount Falkland, made his Election
for Oxford City. New Writ ordered to be
iffued May I.
.George Brown, Efq;
Thomas Archer, Efq;
John Decld void> »ni
vv
Jo
Jo
Ni
War-
222 ffle Parliamentary HISTORY
Warwick B. Clement Throckmorton, jun. Efq;
John Rous, Efq;
WESTMORE- Sir John Lowther, Bart.
LAND. Sir Thomas Wharton, Knight of the Bath,
Jtppulby T. Sir Henry Cholmley, Knt.
Chriftopher Clapham, Efq;
WILTSHIRE. Sir Anthony Afhley Cooper.
John Earnely, Efq;
Salijbury C. Henry Eyre, Efq;
Edward Tooker, Efq;
Wilton B. John Swanton, Efq;
William Hughes, Efq; His Election declared
void, and a new Writ iffued "June 14.
Francis Swanton, Efq\
Richard Grobham Howe^ Efq\
Downton B. Gyles Eyre, jun. Efq;
John Elliot.
Thomas Jitz-James, Efq\
William Coles, Efq\
Hindon B. Sir Thomas Thyn, Knt.
George Grobham Howe, Efq;
Edmund Ludlow, Efq\
Heyte/bury B Thomas Moore, Efq;
John Jolliffe, Efq;
Weflbury B. Richard Lewes,. Efq;
William Brunker, Efqf
Calne B. Edward Bainton, Efq;
William Ducket, Efq;
Devizes B. William Lewis, Efq;
Robert Aldworth, Efq;
'John Norden^ Efq;
Chippenbam B. Edward Hungerford, Efq;
PIdward Pool, Efq;
Malm/bury B Robert Danvers, Efq;
Sir Fran. Hen. Lee, Bart.
Gricklade B. Hungerford Dunch, Efq}
Nevil Madeline, Efq;
Bcdwin B. Robert Spencer, Efq;
Thomas Gape, Efq;
Sir Walter St. John, Bart.
Sir Rtlpb Forney, Knt.
Ludgerfiall
Of
ludgerjhall B.
Old Sarum.
Wtoton-Bajffet B
Marlbcrougb B.
WORCESTER-
SHIRE.
Worcefler C.
Droitwicb B.
Evejham B.
Bewdley B.
YORKSHIRE.
York C.
Klngfton upon
Hull.
Knarejbrough B.
Scarbrougb B.
ENGLAND. 223
William Prynne, Efq; made his ElecUon for
£atb, and a new Writ ordered to be nTued
May 3.
William Thomas, Efq;
Sir John Evelin.
Seymour Bowman, Efq;
John Norden, Efq;
Algernon Cecil, Efq\
John Pleydell, Efq;
Henry Lord Herbert, made his EledVton for
Monmoutkjhire.
Henry Hungerford, Efq;
Jeffrey Daniel, Efq;
Henry Bromley, Efq;
John Talbot, Efq;
Thomas Street, Efq;
Thomas Hall, Efq;
Samuel Sandys, Efq;
Thomas Coventry, Efq;
Sir Thomas Rous, Bart.
John Egiocke, Efq;
Thomas Foley, Efq;.
Thomas Lord Fairfax.
John Dawnay, Efq;
Sir Thomas Widdrington, one of the Lores
CommiiTioners of the Great Seal of Ens-
land.
Metcalf Robinfori, Efq;
John Ramfden, Efq;
Andrew Marvel, Efq;
William Stockdale, Efq;
Henry Bethell, Efq;
William Thompfon, Efq;
Luke Robinfpn, Efq; On the 2lfl of June,
1660, Mr. Robinfon was tlifcharged by an
Order of the Houfe from fitting, and a
Writ ordered to be iffued to eledl another
in his room ; but the Journals do'not give
us the Reafon for this Expulfion.
John Legard, Efa
Henry Arthington, Efq;
Edmund Jennings, Efq;
John Lambert, Efqi Richmond
224 Tfo Parliamentary HISTORY
Richmond B. James D'Arcy, Efq;
Sir Chriftopher Wyvell, Bart.
Heydm B. Col. Hugh Bethell.
John Clobery, Efq; made his Election for
Launcejlon. New Writ iflued July 6.
fiorougbbridgt B. Conyers D'Arcy, Efq;
Henry Stapylton, Efq;
Th'trjk B. Barring Bourchier, Efq;
William Stanley, Efq; made his Election for
Liverpool. New Writ iflued May 15.
Thomas Harrifon, Efq;
Aldborough B. Solomon Swale, Efq;
Francis Goodrick, Efq;
Beverhy B. Sir John Hotham, Bart.
Col. Hugh Bethell, made his Election for Hey-
don. New Writ ordered to be iffued May 22.
Pontefraft B. Sir George Savile, Bart.
William Lowther, Efq;
John Hewly^ Efq;
Lionel Copley, Efq;
Malton B. Philip Howard Efq;
Thomas Heblethwayt, Efq;
Allerton B Francis Lafcelles, Efq; expelled the Houfc
"June 9, rendered incapable of bearing any
Office of public Truft; and it was refolved
that he mould not be within that Claufe of
Exception in the Act of general Pardon,
as to any Fine of Forfeiture of any Part of
his Eftate not purchafed of, or belonging
to, the Public. New Writ ordered to be
iflued "June 12.
Thomas Lafcelles, Efq;
CINQ^UE PORTS.
Ha/lings. Denny Alhburnham, Efq;
Nicholas Delves, Efq;
Romney. Sir Norton Knatchbull, Bart.
John Knatchbull, Efq,;
Hythe. Philip Lord Vifcdunt Strangford.
Phineas Andrews, Efq;
Dover. Edward Montagu, one of the Generals afc Sea,
Arnold Bfaimes, Efqj
Sandwich.
Of ENGLAND.
225
Sandwich,
Seaford,
Rye.
Wncbtlfta.
Anglesey. ^
Beaumaris B.
BRECON. .
Brecon T.
CARDIGAN,
Cardigan T?
CARMARTHEN,
Carmarthen T.
CARNARVON,
Carnarvon T,
DENBIGH.
Denbigh T»
FLINT,
Flint T.
GLAMORGAN,
CaerdijfT.
MERIONETH.
MONTGOMERY.
Montgomery T,
PEMBROKE.
Pembroke T.
Henry Oxenden, Efq;
James Thurbarne, Efc[i
Sir Thomas Dike.
George Parker, Efq;
Herbert Mor^ey, Efq;
William Hay, Efq;
William Howard, fecond Son of Edward
Lord Howard, of Efcrick.
Samuel Gott, Jtfcj;
WALES.
Robert Lord Vifcount Buckley,
RADNOR.
Radnor T.
VpL. XXII,
Griffith Bodurda, Efq;
Sir William Lewis, Bart,
Sir Henry Williams,
[May 1 6, on a Petition of the Freeholders of
\ this County, Writs were ordered to be if?
fued for the Eledion of Members for the
County and Town, and it was referred to
the Committee of Privileges and Elections
to examine into the Mifcarriage of th§
former Writ for the feid Election*
John Lloyd, Efq;
Arthur Annefley, Efq;
John Glynn, {Serjeant at Law,
William Glynn, Efq;
Sir Thomas Middleton, I£nt.
Sir John Carter, of Kimuel, Knt.
7 We find no Return for thefe two Places. If
3 is probable the Writ mifcarriexl in the farn§
Manner as that for Cardigan,
Sir Edward Manfej, Bart.
.Bufley.Manfel, Efq;
Edmund Merrick, Efqj
John Purfell, £%
Thomas Middjeton,
Arthur Owen, Jtfq;
Sir Hugh Owen, Kt. and Bart. Declar'd void.
New Writ ordered to be jflued June %Q,
William Phillips, Efq;
George Gwin, Efq;
Robert parley,
226 *fbe Parliamentary HISTORV
The 'Journals of both Houfes now begin again,
which we (hall faithfully abftract up to our deter-
mined Period ; and firft, as in Juftice it is due to
the Upper Houfe, and becaufe we have been long
Strangers to them, their "Journals muft claim the
Preference. And, to do more Honour to them, we
think proper to give their firft five Days Proceed-
ings at full Length, as they are entered on their
journals.
journals of the jT);> Mercurl Viceffwio Quinto Die Aprilis, Anns
Houfe of Lords j _£<£»/ Sereni/imi Domini noftri Caroli Secundi,
Dei Gratia Angliae, Scotiae, Francias, & Hiber-
niae, Regis, Fidel Defenfor, Duodecimo.
PRAYERS by Mr. Afhe.
Domini prefentes fuerunt,
The Earl of Mancbefter appointed by the Lords
to be Speaker pro Tempore^
The Earls of Northumberland, Lincoln, Suffolk, and
Denbigh, Vifcount Say and Sele, Lords lVbartont
Hunfdeny Grey de Werk, Maynard, &c.
Ordered, That Monday next be appointed to be
kept, by this Houfe,, as a Day of Parting and Hu-
miliation, for feeking a Blefling from God by Prayer,
upon the Meeting of both Houfes of Parliament, in
order to a Settlement of this Nation ; and the Place
to be the Abbey Church in Wejlminfler for the
Peers, wherein the Houfe of Commons are to be
defired to do the like for their Houfe.
A Meflage was fent to the Houfe of Commons
by Mr. Rich and Mr. Eltonhead, to let them know
that the Lords have appointed to keep Monday next
as a Faft-Day, for feeking of God for a Blefling up-
on the Meeting of both Houfes, in order to a Settle-
ment of this Nation, and to defire their Concur-
rence for the fame Day to be kept as a Faft by their
Houfe.
The Earls of Northumberland and Lincoln, the
Lords Wharton, Hunfden, and Grey de Werk, were
appointed to confider of the Draught of an Order
fw Htnry ScoMJ, Efqj t« deliver all Afts, Records,
• an*
Of E N G L A N D. ^^J
and Journal-Books, and all Papers and Writings
whatfoever, that are in his Cuftody, belonging to the
Peers, to John Brown, Efq; Qlerk of the Parliament,
and lilcewife the Stone Tower ai}d Dwelling-Houfe
belonging thereunto, and report the fame (LQ this
Houfe. Their Lordfhips to meet prefently,
' Refdlved, That George Monke, Efq; is nominar
ted and appointed, by this Houfe, to be Captain*
General of all Land Forces in England^ Scotland^
and Ireland, and the Concurrency qf the Houfe of
Commons be defired therein.'
The Earl of Lincoln reported from the Cortimit-
tee the Order concerning the Records of this Houfe,
•which was read and approved of, and ordered fp be
iigned by the Speaker of this Houfe, viz,
* "T "If 7"Hereas Henry Scobell, Efq; is now in theorder
« VV Poffeffion of the Dwelling-Houfe in theSceteli
to Mf.
« Old Palace Yard at Weftmintter, belonging to theuP .
« Clerk of the Parliament, who attends as Clerk to°f '
* the Houfe of Peers, and hath in his Cuftody the
* A6ts, Journals, and other Records of that Houfe:
* It is ordered by the Lords in Parliament, That th?
* faid Henry Scobell {hall, upon Sight hereof, forth-
« with deliver unto John Prown, Efq; Clerk of the
* Parliament, or his Aligns, the Poffeflion of a cer-
* tain Stone Building, ftanding within the faid Pwel-
* ling- Houfe, commonly called theT0wr, wherein
* the Records were ufually kept, and the Keys an4
* other Things belonging to the fame ; As alfo the
* A6ts, Ordinances, Journals, Records, Writings,
* and Papers appertaining, or any wife belonging tQ
* the faid Office. And laftly, That the faid Henry
* Scobell (ball deliver the quiet Poffeflion of the fai$
< Dwelling-Houfe, with the Appurtenances, untp
* the faid John Brown, or his Afligns, within four-
* teen Days next after the Date of this Order, an4
* hereunto Obedience is required accordingly.'
The Earl of Northumberland, Lord Vifcount Say
and Self, with the Lords IVbarton and Hunfden*
were appointed to confider of fuch Lords as ftialj
P 2 have
228 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. have Letters written to them, to defire their Attend -
l66o> ance on this Houfe. To meet prefently in the
^^^ Prince's Lodgings.
The Lord Wbartan reported the Names of thofe
Lords, and likewife a Draught of the Letter, which
were read and agreed to, viz.
My Lord,
c TT Am commanded by the Houfe of Peers, hereby
' J^ to, fignify their Pleafures, that you do repair
' to attend the Houfe with what convenient Speed
' you can : And fo reft
Tour Lord/hip's humble Servant,
MANCHESTER, Speaker pro Tempore.
The Earls of Northumberland, Suffolk, and Man-
£be/hr,.Vlfcount Say-&nd Sele, ajid the Lords Hunf~
den, Grey de- JVerk, *nd Maynard, were appointed
by the Houfe to go to the Lord-General Monke to
deliver this MefTage to him, from the Lords in Par-
liament, and the Earl of Mancbejler, Speaker, was
to fpeak it, viz. . ,
« rip HE Peers in Parliament, a'flembletj, have
_J_ commanded me to own your Lordfliip's
Valour and Prudence in managing the great Affairs
intrufted to you ; and they likewife return your
Lorclfhip their 'Acknowledgements for the Care and
Refpe&s. which you- have exprefled to the Peers,
in reftoring them to their antient and undoubted
Rights. And they hope that God 'will ftill blefs
you in the Ufe of all Means for the' procuring a fafe
and well-grounded Peace, according to the antient
fundamental Government of this Nation, wherein
they (hall employ their Councils and utmoft Endea-
vours in Concurrence with you.'
. Ptft Meridiem.
PRAYER'S by Mr. Rood.
Domini prefentes fuervnt,
The Earl of Mancbefter, Speaker pro Tempore,
The Earls ©f Nertlwmhrland, Lincoln^ Suffolk, &c,
*" Or-.
Of E N G L A N D. 229
« Ordered, That Dr. Reynolds and Mr. Hardy are Inter-regnum.
appointed to preach before the Lords on Monday 1660.
next, being the Faft-Day ; and that the Houfe be ^"""T^T J
called To-morrow.'
Die Jovisj viz. 26° Die jfpri/is, 1660.
PRAYERS by Air. Hodges.
Domini prefentcs fuarunt,
The Earl of Manchefttr, Speaker pro Tempore, .
The Earls of Northumberland ', Pembroke^ Lincoln^
The Meflengers fent Yefterday to the Houfe cf
Commons return with this Anfwer, That they
concur with this H'oufe in keeping Monday next a
Faft-Day.
* Ordered, That Francis Tyton and Jubn Ma-
cocke arc appointed to be Printers to this Houfe, .up-
on fuch Conditions as the Clerk of the Parliament
ftiall think fit.'
'* Ordered, That the antient'Order of this .Houfe
be revived for the Lords to pay corning after Pray-
ers, viz* every Earl 2s. and every Baron is.'
The Earls of Northumberland, Lincoln , Dorfet,
cff-r. were ordered to prepare an Ordinance in pur-
fuance of the Vote made Yefterday by this Houfe,
concerning the Lord-General Monke. Their Lord-
fhips, or any four of them, to . meet To-morrow
Morning at iii^ht of the Clock, and Mr. Rich and
Mr. Eltonhead to b'e Ailiftants.
The Roll of the' ftanding Orders of this H»ufs
was read.
The Earl of Manchefter reported that his Lord-'
fhip and the reft of the Lords Committees delivered
to General Monke what this Houfe'' had dire6ted
Yefterday; and the General exprefled himfclf to
this Effeci : ' That he took it for a great Honour and
Civility from the Houfe of Peers ; and faid he would
be ready to carry on all Things that tend to the
Safety and Settlement of this Nation; and defir'd that
P 3 their
£30 9?>g Parliamentary Hist oftir
eir Lordfhips would be pleafed to look forward anil
not backward, in tranfa&ing of Affairs.'
April< A Meflage was brought From the Houfe of Com*
mons by James Herbert, Efq; who faid he was com-
manded by the Knights, Citizens, artd Burgefles of
the Houfe of Commons in Parliament aflembled, to
acquaint this Houfe, that they have refolved that
this Day Fortnight be fet apart for a Day of Thankf-
giving to the Lord, for railing up his Excellency the
Lord-General, and other eminent Perfons who have
been inftrumental in the Delivery of this Nation
from Thraldom.
Alfo that they have1 refolved, That this Day Fort-
night be the Day fet apart for a Day of Thankfgi-
ving for that Houfe, and within the Cities of London
and Weftminjler, and late Lines bf Communication;
and this Day Month for the whole Nation.
To all which the Houfe of Commons defire their
IfOrdfhipS Concurrence.
The Anfwer returned to this Meflage from the
Houfe of Commons was, That the Lords do, with
thankful Hearts, acknowledge God's great Mercy iri
delivering them out of their long Thraldom, Con-
fufion, and Mifery, and do fully concur with you
in fetting apart thofe public Days of Thankfgiving.
« Ordered, That thefe Votes be forthwith printed
and publifhed.'
4 Ordered, That Mr. Henry Barhr, Deputy to
Valentine Willis, Clerk of the Crown in Chancery,
be admitted to fit in this Houfe as an Afliftant, it
appearing to this Houfe, by Patent under the Great
Seal of England^ granted by the late King, that the
laid Mr. Willis had a good Title to the faid Office,
and had Power to make a Deputy.
Die Veneris, viz. 27° Die Apr His, 1660.
PRAYERS by Mr. Hodges.
Domini prefentes fuerunt,
The Earl of Mancbefter, Speaker pro Tempers,
The Earls of Oxen, Northumberland^ Derby, o*.
'Or-
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e Ordered, That Mr. Hodges is appointed to preach
before the Lords, the next Day of Thankfgiving, in
the Abbey Church.'
Signification being given to the Houfe, that divers
Lords were in the Lobby, ready to attend the Ser-
vice of this Houfe, having never fat in Parliament
lince the Death of their Anceftors, the Houfe gave
the Gentleman Ufher Authority to call them in to
fit in their Places in this Houfe. The Names of the
aforefaid Lords were, the Earls of Oxon, Derby^
and Stafford^ Lord VifcountConway, and the Lords
Cromwell^ Gerrard, Tenham, and Capell.
' Ordered, That the Speaker of this Houfe do
write feveral and refpective Letters to, the Earls of
Leicejter, Bedford, and Clare, and Lord Paget, to
give their Attendance on this Houfe as Peers.'
The Earls of Oxon, Northumberland, Rutland,&c.
were ordered to frame an Ordinance for the confli-
tuting of a Committee of Safety of both Houfes, and
to report the fame to this Houfe. Their Lordmips,
or any four, to meet when they pleafe.
4 Refolved, That the Earl of Manchefter is here-
by nominated and appointed one of the Commif-
fioners of the Great Seal of England, and to fend to
the Houfe of Commons for their Concurrence.'
Lords Committees appointed to confider of the
Privileges of this Houfe, viz. Earls of Oxon, Nor-
thumberland, Derby, &c. Their Lordfhips, or any
nine of them, to meet in the Prince's Lodgings when
they pleafe, and to adjourn from Time to Time, as
they fhall fee Caufe.
' Ordered, That it is referred to the Lords Com-
mittees for Privileges to confider of the different
Cafes of thofe Lords that have late come. to fit in
this Houfe, and thofe that do not; and alfo what Af-
fiftants that formerly fat in this Houfe, and arc now
alive and capable of being admitted, to be Afliftants
to this Houfe.'
' Ordered, That a Conference be had with the
Houfe of Commons, to confider of fome Way and
Means to be found out to make up the Breaches and
Diftracliorrs of .this Kingdom. This Conference
to
Parliamentary
r-Wghnih. to be on Txefday Morning next in the Painted*
• Chamber :' And the Earls of 0#0«, Northumberland^
VJ]"*^ Bedford, &c. were appointed to confider and drav*
up Heads for this Conference. Their Lordfhips, of
any feven of them, to meet To-morrow in the*
Prince's Lodgihgs at Nine of the Clock.
A Meflage was fent to the Houfe of Commons,
by Mr. Rich and Mr. Eltonhead^ to defire a Confe-
rence on Tuefday Morning next, at Ten of the
Clock, in the Painted-Chamber, in order to the Set-
tlement of the great Affairs of this Kingdom.
'
Die Luna, viz. 30° Die Aprilis^ i66o>
PRAYERS by Mr. Reynolds.
Domini prefentes fuerunt,
The Earl of Manchefter, Speaker pro Temporet
The Earls of Bedford, Pembroke, Lincoln, &c.
' Ordered, That the Lords of this Houfe do re-»
Ceive Sacrament in the Abbey- Church of Wcftmin*
Jier; and, as concerning the Time, it is referred to
the Committee of Privileges to confider of it, and
report the fame to this Houfe.'
* Ordered, That the Lady Suffex and her Chil-
dren fball have a Pafs to go into France for their
Health, with their Servants and neceflary Attend-
ants, and fuch Horfes as are convenient for their
Service.'
The Lords, before they went to the Faft- Ser-
mons, made a Collection for the Poor, which was to
be diftributed as the Houfe fhould thereafter appoint*
Then the Lords went from this Houfe together,
in their Order, to keep the Faft in the Abbey-
Church.
epdings of The 'Journals of the Houfe of Commons begin
Houie of W5th acquainting us, That, on the Day of their
»««. Meeting, the Members of that Houfe firft went to
Margaret's Church, Weftminfter, to hear a Sermon,
and then repaired to their own Houfe ; where, on a
Motion made by Mr. Pierepoint, §\T HarbottleGrim-
fan was chofen Speaker, and placed in the Chair by
the
Of E N G L A N D. 233
the Lord-General Monke™, Mr. Holies, and the faid
Mr. Pier f point. Next William Je/cp, Efq; James
Northfolk, Efq; and Ralph Darnall^ Efq; were cho-
fen Clerk, Serjeant at Arms, and Clerk-Affiftant, of
the Commons Houfe of Parliament.
The Clerk of the Crown attended with a Book,
containing an Account of the Members chofen to
ferve in this prefent Parliament, by which the Houfe
•was called over; and thofe Members who were pre-
fent did, upon their Naming, withdraw into the
Committee Chambers and Gallery above. After-
wards, when the Book was gone through, they re-
turned and took their Places in the Houfe.
On a Meflage from the Lords, the Houfe agreed
to hold a Faft on Monday the joth ; and that Mr.
Calamy^ Dr. Gauden, and Mr. Baxter, be defired to
aflift in carrying on the Work of Fafting and Hu-
miliation, on that Day, at Margaret's Church,
IVeJlminfter, in order to feek the Lord for a Blef-
ilng on thefe diftra&ed Nations. So long did the
canting Expreflions of the former Zealots continue
in Ufe.
A large Committee for Privileges and EleSions
XVas appointed, with full Powers for that Purpofe.
' Ordered, That all Perfons who will queftion
Elections now returned, do it within fourteen Days,
and fo on within the fame Time, after any new Re
lurn. A Day of Thankfgiving to the Lord was
appointed, for raifmg up his Excellency the Lord-
General, and other eminent Perfons, who have been
inftrumental in the Delivery of this Nation from
Thraldom and Mifery. May the loth to be the
Day, and that the Lords Concurrence be defired
herein.' Ordered, alfo, ' That Mr. Price, the Lord-
GeneraPs Chaplain, (Author of the Hiftory fo of-
ten quoted) be defired to carry ort the Work of
Thankfgiving, before this Houfe, at Margaret's
Church,
fa The General was e'efted a Member, tinanirrtoufly. !iy the Uni-
Verfity of Cambridge ; which Honour, Dr. Gamble fays, he ever re-
membered with Thankfulnefs. But being at the fame Time re-
turned one of the Knights of the Shiie for the County of Devon, he
cnofe to feprefent the latter as his native Country.
i>r, GtanJ/ir'e <LJfc ol General Mon'te, p. aS8»
234 The Parliamentary HISTORY
jnter-regnnm. Church, Weftminfter ; and that Dr. Clargis do give
1660. h^ >J0tice thereof.'
^—p^p-' * Refolved, That his Excellency the Lord-General
Monke have the Recognition, Acknowledgement,
and hearty Thanks of this HoUfe, for his eminent
and unparallel'd Services done to thefe Nations.
Accordingly the Speaker gave the Thanks of the
Houfe to the Lord -General, ftanding in his Place,
to the Effect following:
Solemn Thanks ' That he was commanded by this Houfe to take
givm to General Notice of his eminent Services, his Wifdom being
Mmke. fuch, and God having fo bleffed him in his great
Affairs, that he hath made a Conqueft of thofe who
are Enemies and difaffe&ed to the Government,
Happinefs, and Welfare of this Church and State*
without a bloody Nofe : That this hath much ad-
vanced the Honour of his Services, having been ef-
fected without the Expence of Blood or Treafure,
of both which the Nation had been fo much ex-
haufted, that nothing but a Neceflity could rationally
have fatisfied any Man to draw out more : That his
Lord(hip hath been our Phyfician, and hath cured
us with his Lenitives : That Statues have heretofore
been fet up for Perfons meriting much of their Coun-
try ; but his Lordfhip hath a Statue fet up higher,
and in another Place, as high as may be, in the
Hearts of all Well- wi (hers to the Good of this Na-
tion, and a Crown of Glory, he doubts not, laid up
for him in Heaven : That God hath made him
inftrumental, by his helping Hand, to keep the Na-
tion from finking, when no Way was reprefented
to our Underftanding, whence Deliverance fhould
arife ; fo that God's raifing him up, accompanying,
blefling, and aflifting him in his Counfels, in fuch
fort as to accomplifn his Work to that Height, can-
r.ot be otherwife owned by thofe that look upon him,
and his Actions, than as a Miracle : And therefore,
in the Name of the Houfe, he returns to his Lord-
fhip the hearty Thanks of this Houfe ; adding, he
was fure his Lord {hip would beiieve it if he had not
laid fo.'
Then
Of £ N G L A N D. 235
Then it was refolved, That Col. Ingoldfoy (hould in
have the Thanks of the Houfe, for his former and ^1660.
late great and eminent Services done for this Nation, T*T
which the Speaker accordingly gave him to the Ef-
fect following :
« That he is commanded by the Houfe to take
Notice of his former Services, and of his late Action,
wherein God hath made him inftrumental to do fo
great and eminent a Service to the Nation, for which
he returns him their hearty Thanks ; having made
him as high in Favour as he is in his own Merit>
for adventuring himfelf fo far in the public Caufe j
and that the Houfe's good Acceptance thereof is the
more valuable, being taken Notice of on the fame
Day with the great Services performed for the Na-1
lion by his Excellency the Lord-General/
April 27. The Houfe of Commons did nothing
material on this Day, but hear a Report from the
Committee of Privileges and Elections, concerning
feveral double Returns, &c. at the End of which it
was ordered, That the great Bufinefs, touching the
Settlement of thefe Nations, be taken into Confi-
deration on Tuejday the firft of May next, at Eight
o'Clock j to which Day the Houfe adjourned itfelf,
referving Power to all Committees to fit and acfc in
the mean Time, notwithstanding this Adjournment.
During this fhort Interval of the Commons, for A fho
the Lords did not adjourn at all, there happened andote-
Affair, which Dr. Price hath given us, and is a
Piece of fecret Hiftory very neceflary to be known
previous to their next Meeting. This Author tells
us, ' That, in this (hort Recefs, the General and
Sir John Grenville confulted together about the De-
• ivery of his Meflagc, Letters, faff, from his Majefty
to both Houfes. That which was fuperfcribed to
the General, to be by him communicated to the
Army and Council of State, was, by his Appoint-
ment, delivered to him at the Door of the Council-
Chamber, where Grenvllle attended, and into which,
as Col. Birch, one of the Members of it, was en-
tering, GrtttvjBii requefted him (but unknown) that
he
236 The Parliamentary His TOR V
!nttr-regnum. he might fpeak with my Lord-General ; who, upon
1660. Birch's Intimation, came to the Door, and there, in
V^V7"*' tne Sight of his Guards attending, received Gren-
ville's Letters, but not with much Regard either to
his Perfon or his Bufinefs ; of which the General
ieemed to underftand fomewhat by the Seal, and
afked him if he would ftay there till he had his An-
fwer, otherwife his Guards fhould fecure him, com-
manding them to look to him; So his Excellency
produceth his Letters to the Council of State, Gren-
vi/le is fent for in, and Birch protefted that he neither
knew the Gentleman nor his Bufinefs. The Lord -
Prefident of the Council examined Grenville from
whence thofe Letters came, whofe they were, and
how he came by them, (for as yet they were not-
opened) he told the Prefident that the King, his
Mafter, gave him them with his own Hands at Bre-
da : So the opening of them was deferred till the
Parliament fat. Grenville was to have been fent
into Cuftody, but the General was his Bail, who
faid he knew the Gentleman, (being his near Kinf-
man) and would take his Parole to appear before
the Parliament.'
It is eafy to fee by this Quotation from the Re-
verend Author, which we have given verbatim, that
the General had thought it his Intereft to carry on
the Delufion to the laft. But now, he adds, the
Mankes Hood was to be taken off, and the General
was to declare his Attachment to the King and
Royal Family in full Parliament. How far this
Chicanery was commendable we fhall not deter-
mine ; 'tis plain he gained his Point quite thro' by
the deeped Diffimulation, and waded thro' feme very
dirty Ways to come at it. But, if we may believe
our Reverend Writer, his Mafter defigned to have
played a nobler Game, if this he was ading fhould
be circumvented. t For, on Lambert's Efcape, and
his taking the Field, he fent for Sir'Jobn Grenville ,
and told him, ' That if Col. Ingoldfby was beaten,
and the Army went over to follow Lambert, he was
rcfolved then to put off his Difguife, declare the
Of E N G L A N D. 237
King's Commiflion, own it for the Authority by inter-«enu«.
which he adted, and commiffion the Royal Party l66°-
into Arms in all Places throughout England, Scot- <*""TV"T*"^
land, and Ireland ; Wherefore he required Sir "John
to attend him, and receive Orders from him for his
Majefty's Service.
'*A\ • • * * '* • * i ' * * v
But Providence directed the King's Return by
milder Ways ; for, on the firft of May, when the
two Houfes were met, after the Lords had done
fome other Bufmefs, and ordered a Call of their
Houfe to be on the ^d Jnftant, they were informed,
That there was a Gentleman, Sir John Grenville,
in the Lobby, who had a Letter to deliver to this
Houfe from the King ; the Houfe thereupon was
adjourned during Pleafure, and the Speaker was
appointed to go to the lower End of this Houfe, and
receive it at the Hands of the MefTenger.
The Houfe being refumed, the Speaker reported,
That Sir John Grenville delivered to him a Letter,
which he faid he received from the King, his Mailer,
to deliver to the Houfe of Peers. Hereupon the
Houfe commanded the faid Letter, with a Declara-
tion inclofed therein, to be read twice; which was
done accordingly, and are as follow :
To the SPEAKER of the Houfe of PEERS, and to
the LORDS there affembled,
CHARLES R.
Right Trufty and Right Well-beloved Coufms, and
Right Trufty and Well-beloved, we Greet you
.well :
cannot have .a better Reafon to promife our- The King's I,?*,
f elf an End of our common Sufferings and Ctf-ter to the HQ^;?
/amities, and thai cur own jujl Power and Authority01 Peers>
willt with God's Elejjing, be reftored to us, than that
we hear you are <?gain acknowledged to have that Au-
thority and Jurifdifiion which bath always belonged
to you by your: Birth, and the Fundamental Laws of
the Land : And we have thought it very Jit and fafe
for us to (all to you for your Jdelp in the cumpojjng the
238 *Fhe Parliamentary HISTORY
later- r«gnum. confounding Diftempers and Dijiraftions of the King*
1660, dem^ jn which your Sufferings are next to thofe wt
^^~^~r ~~* have undergone oyrfelf; and therefore you cannot but
1 * be the mo ft proper Counfellors for removing thofe Mif-
(hiefs, and for preventing the like for the future*
How great a Truft we repofe in you, for the procu-
ring and ejlablijhing a blej/ed Peace and Security for
the Kingdom , will appear to you by our inclofed De-
claration ; which Truft, we are moft confident, you
will discharge with that "Juftice and Wifdom that
becomes ynu, and mujl always be expetled from you j
and that, upon your Experience how one Violation
Jucceeds another, when the known Relations and Rules
efjujlice are once tranfgreffid, you will be as jealous
for ike Rights of the Crown, and for the Honour of
your King, as for yourfelves, and then you cannot but
difcharge your Truft with good Succefs, end provide
for and eJJailiJh the Peace, Happinefs, and Honour
of King, Lords, and Commons, upon that Founda-
tion which can only fupport it, and we jhall be all
happy in each other : And as the whole Kingdom will
blefs God for you all, fo we Jhall hold ourfelf ebligedt
in an efpecial Manner, to thank you in particular, ac-
cording to the dffettion you Jhall exprefs towards us.
We need the lefs enlarge to you upon this SubjetJ, be-
caufe we have likewife writ to the Houfe of Commons*
which we fuppofe they iviil communicate to you ; and
we pray Gad to blefs your joint Endeavours for the
Good of us all : And fo we bid you very heartily
Farewell, Given at our Court at Breda, this ^ Day
of April, 1660, in the twelfth Year of our Reign.
His Majefty's Declaration from Breda to all hif,
loving Subje&s, inclofed in the foregoing.
CHARLES R.
Hi. Majefty*, /CHARLES, by the Grace of God,
Itclarauon.
| lvi^ Scotlan(J} FrancCj ^ Infa*, Defender
of the Faith, &c. To all cur loving Subjefts, of
what Degree or Quality foever, Greeting.
If the general Diflraffion and Ccnfufian which h
resd over the whole Kingdom^ doth net awaken
til
Of E N G L A N D. 239
all Men to a Defire and Longing that thofe Wounds, Inter-regnum.
which have fo many Tears together been kept bleeding, l66o«
may le bound up, all we can fay will be to no Pur- **— '""v"^-1'
pofe j however, after this long Silence, we have thought
it our Duty to declare how much we dejire to contri-
bute thereunto ; and that as ive can never give ever
the Hope, in good Time, to obtain the PoJJeJfion of that
Right which God and Nature hath made our Due ;
fo we do make it our daily Suit to the Divine Provi-
dence, that he will, in Compajffion to us and our Sub-
jetls, after fo long Mifery and Bufferings, remit, and.
put us into a quiet and peaceable PoJJejJion of that our
Right, with as little Blood and Damage to our People
as is pojjible ; nor do we dejire more to enjoy what is
ours, than that all our Subjefts may enjoy what by
Law is theirs, by a full and entire Adminiftration of
"Juftice throughout the Land, and by extending our
Mercy where it is wanted and deferved.
And to the End that the Fear of Punijhment may
not engage any confcious to themfelves of what is pa ft,
to a P erf ever ance in Guilt for the future, by oppofmg
the £)uiet and Happinefs of their Country, in the Re-
Jloration both of King, Peers, and People to their
juft, antient, and Fundamental Rights, we do, by
thefe Prefents, declare, That we do grant a free and
general Pardon, which we are ready, upon Demand^
to pafs under our Great Seal of England, to all our
Subjects, of what Degree cr Duality j a ever, who,
within forty Days after the publi/bing hereof, Jhall lay
hold upon this cur Grace and Favour, and Jhall, by
any public Afl, declare their doing fo, and that they
return to the Loyalty and Obedience of good Subjects -,
excepting only fuch Per fens as foa'l hereafter be ex-
cfpted by Parliament, thofe only to be exempted. Let all
our Subjects, how faulty foevcr, rely upon the Word
fif a King, j'olemnly given by this prefent Declaration,
*Tbat no Crime whatfoevcr, committed againjl us or our
Royal Fatter before the Publication of this, Jhall ever
rife in judgment, cr be brought in ^uejlicn, againft
any of them, to the hajl Endamagement of them, either
in their Lives, Liberties, or E/tates, or (as far forth
as lift in onr Power) fo much as to the Prejudice of
*/
fa
240 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter- regnum. their Reputations, by any Reproach or Term of Di~
1660.. ftinftion from the reft of our bejl Subjects j we de-
**"TvT~'lJ firing and ordaining, that henceforth all Notes of Dif-
cord, Separation, and Difference of Parties be utterly
abolijhed among all our Subjects, whom we invite and
conjure to a per f eft Union among themf elves, under our
ProteStion^ for the Re-fettlement of our jujl Rights
and theirs, in a Free Parliament, by which, upon the
Word of a King, we wilt be advifed.
And becaufe the PaJJion and Uncharitablenefs of the
Times have produced feveral Opinions in Religion, by
which Men are engaged in Parties and, Animofities
again/I each other, (which, when they Jhall hereafter
unite in a Freedom of Converfation, will be compofed^
or better under/load) we do declare a Liberty to tender
Consciences, and that no Man Jball be difquieied or
called in ^uejlion, for Differences of Opinion in
Matter of Religion, which do not dijlurb the Peace
f the Kingdom ; and thai we Jhall be ready to con-
ent to fuch an Aft of Parliament, cs, upon mature
Deliberation, Jhall be offered to us, for the full grant-
ing that Indulgence*
And becaufe, in the continued Dijlrafiion: offo many
Years, and fo many and great Revolutions, many
Grants and Purchafes of Ejlates have been made to,
and by, many Officers, Soldiers,- and others ; who are
now pojfejfid of the fame, and who may be liable to
Actions at Law upon feveral Titles, we are like-
wife willing that all fuch Differences, and all Things
relating to fuch Grants, Sales, and Purchafes, Jhall
be determined in Parliament ; which can bejt provide
for the juft Satisfaction of all Men who are concerned.
And we do further declare, That we will be ready
to confent to c.ny AcJ or Affs of Parliament to'' the
Purpofes aforefaid, and for the full Satisfaction of
all Arrears due to the Officers and Soldiers of the Ar-
my under the Command of General Monks ; and that
they Jhall be received into our Service upon as good
Pay and Conditions as they now enjoy.
Given under our Sign Manual and Privy-Signet,
at our Court at Breda, this ^ Day of April,
i(?6o, in tUc twelfth Year of our Reign.
May
Of ENGLAND. 241
May i, In the Houfe of Commons, Mr. Annejley Inter-regnam,
reported from the Council of State, a Letter from l66o<
the King, unopened, directed To our Trufty and Well- *~J"r7,v~
beloved General Monlce, to be communicated to the Pre-
fident and Council of State.) and to tbt Officers of the
Armies under his Command* being received from the
Hands of Sir John Grenville.
The Houfe being informed that Sir John Gren-
•ville, a MefTenger from the King, was at the Door,
it was refolved that he fhould be called in ; which
being done, and he at the Bar, after QbejfancQ
made, faid,
' Mr. Speaker, I am commanded by the King,
my Mafter, to deliver this Letter to you, and his
Defires that you would communicate it to the
Houfe/
The MefTenger being withdrawn, the Letter was
read to the Jtipufe by Mr, Speaker, and was as fol-
lows ;
To our Right Trufty and Well-beloved the
SPEAKER of the Houfe of COMMONS,
CHARLES R,
Trufty and Well-beloved, we greet you well.
TN thefe great and infupportable dffilttions and Ca~ A Letter to thg,
•* lamities under which the pocr Nation haih been fo Houfc of C
long exercifed, and by which it is fo near exkaujledt ^™ f'9IIi
live cannot think of a more, natural and proper Reme-
dy, than to refort to thofe for Council and Advice. , who
have feen and obferved the firft Beginning of our Ml-*
/fries, the Progrefs from bad to worfe, and the Ali-
jlakes and Mifunderjlandings which have produced.
and contributed to Inconveniences which were not in-
tended \ and after fo many Revolutions , and the Ob~
fsrvation of what hath attended them, are now trufted.
by our good Subjefls to repair the Breaches which are
wade, and to provide proper Remedies for thofe Evils^
find for the lajiing Peace, Happinefs, and Sfcwify cf
the Kingdom,
We do ajjiire you, upon our Royal Word, that nonq
cf cur PredeceJJors have had a greater Ejlecm of Par ^
liaments than we have ; in cur "Judgment > ffs well as
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242 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regmim. from cur Obligation, we do believe them to be fo vital
1660. a part Of the Conjiitution of the Kingdom, and fo ns-
v— •\^— J cejjary for the Government of it, that -we well know9
^ay* neither Prince nor People can be, in any tolerable De-
gree, happy without them : And therefore you may be
confident, that we Jha II always look upon their Counfels
as the bejl we can receive ; and Jhall be as tender of
their Privileges, and as careful to preferve and pro-
te£t them, as of that which is moft near to ourfelf, and
mojl necejfary for our own Prejervation.
And as this is our Opinion of Parliaments, that
their Authority is mojl nccejfary for the Government
of the Kingdom, fo we are mojl confident that you be-
lieve and find, that the Preservation of the King's
Authority is as necejfary for the Prefervation of Par-
liaments ; and that it is not the Name, but the right
Conjiitution of them, which can prepare and apply
•proper Remedies for thofe Evils which are grievous"
to the People, and which can thereby eftablijb their
Peace and Security : And therefore we have not the
haft Doubt but that you will be as tender in, and as
jealous of, any thing that may infringe our Honour, or
impair cur Authority, as of your own Liberty and
Property, which is bejl preferved by preferving the
other.
Haw far we have tru/led you in this great AJfair^
and how much it is in ycur Power to reftore the Na-
tion to all that it hath lojl, and to redeem it from any
Infamy it hath undergone, and to ?nake King and
People as happy as they ought to be, you will find by
our inch fed Declaration, a Copy of which we have
iikewife fent to the Houfe of Peers k : And you will
eaftly believe that ^v^ would not voluntarily, and of
ourfelf, have repofed fo great a Trujl in you, but upon
an entire Confidence that you will not abufe it, and that .
you will proceed in fitch a Manner, and with fuch due
Confederation of 'us who have trufled you, thatwejhall
not he ajhamed of declining other Ajjiftance, (which
we have AJJitrance of) and repairing to you for more
natural and proper Re?ne dies for the Evils we would
be freed from j nor ferry that we have bound up our
own
k Given before at p, 238,
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t>wn Intereft fo intirely with that of our Subjects, as Inter-rcgnum«
that we refer it to the fame Perjons to take Care of J^6°'
us, who are trufted to provide for them. We look **~~M~~*
upon you as wife and difpaffionate Men, and good
Patriots, . who will raife up thofe Banks and Fences
which have been caft down, and whs will me ft reafon-
ably hope, that the fame Profperity vjill again jpring
from thofe Roots from which it hath heretofore and
always grown. Nor can we apprehend that you will
propofe any thing to us, or expett any thing from usy
but that ive are as ready to give as you to receive.
If you defire the Advancement and Propagation of
the Protejiant Religion, ^ve have, by our con/iant
Profejfion and Practice of it, given fujfi dent Tc/iimo-
ny to the florid, that neither the \JnkindneJs cf thofe
of the fame Faith towards us, nor the Civilities and
Obligations from thofe of a contrary Profejfion, (of
loth which we have had abundant Evidence) could in
the leaji Degree Jlartle us, or make us fwerve from it.
jind nothing can be propojed to manifeft our Zeal and
jtffefiion for it, to which we will not readily confent.
And we hope in due Time ourfelf to propafe j'omewhat
to you for the Propagation of it, that will fatisfy the
(1/orld that we have always made it both our Care and
cur Study, and have enough obferved what is mo ft like
to bring Disadvantage to it,
If you defire Security for thofe, who, in thefe cala-
mitous Times, either wilfully or weakly have tranf-
grejjed thofe Bounds which were prejcribed, and have
invaded each other's Rights, we have left to ycu to pro-
vide for their Security and Indemnity, and in fuch a
Way as you Jhall think ju/i and reafonabie ; and, l>y a
jujl Computation of what Men have done andfuffered,
as near as is pojfible, to take Care that all Men be fa-
tisfied', which is the furejl Way to fupprefs and extir-
pate all fuch Uncharitablenefs and Animofity, as might
hereafter Jhake and threaten that Peace, which, for the
prefent, might feem eftablljhed. If there be a crying
Sin, for which the Nation may be involved in the In-
famy that attends it, we cannot doubt but that yon
will be as follicitous to redeem and vindicate the Na-
tion frsm that Guilt and Infamy as i'je can l>e,
244 The Parliamentary HISTORY
If you defire that Reverence and Obedience may be
paid to the Fundamental Laws of the Land, and that
"Juftice may be equally and impartially adminijlered to
ay' all Men, it is that which we defers to be /worn to our-
felf, and that all Perfons in Power, and Authority
JJjould be fo too.
In a Word; there is nothing that you can propofe?
that may make the Kingdom happy , which we will not
contend with you to compafs ; and, upon this Confidence
and AJJurance, we have thought Jit to fend you this
Declaration, that you may, as much as is pojjible, at
this Dijlance, fee our Heart ; which when God Jhall
bring us nearer together ', (as we hope he will do Jhort-
ly} will appear to you very agreeable to what we have
prcfejfid. And we hope that we have made that right
Chrijlian Ufe of our Affliction, and that the Obferva-
tion and Experience we have had in other Countries
bath been fuch, as that we, and we hope all our Sub-
jefls, Jhall be the better for what we have feen and
Buffered.
We Jhall add no more but our Prayers to Almighty
God) that he will fo blefs your Counfels, and direSl
your Endeavours, that his Glory and fVorjhip may be
•provided for, and the Peace, Honour •, and Happinefs
of the Nation may be eftabltjhed upon thofe Founda-
tions which can beji fupport it. (And fo we bid you
farewell. Given at our Court at Breda this -^th Day
of April, 1660, in the Twelfth Year of our Reign.
After reading the foregoing, with the Declaration
inclofed, the following Letter from his Majefty to
General Monkevns allb read.
To ourTrufly and Well-beloved General MONKE,
to be by him communicated to the PRESIDENT
•and COUNCIL of STATE, and to the OFFICERS
of the ARMIES under his Command.
CHARLES R.
Trudy and Well-beloved, we greet you well.
To Gsn. Rhr.Z: jT cannot be believed but that we have been, are*
and the Council-' and ever mujl be, as follicitcus as we can, by all
Uh;> EndeevmrS) to impnve the A/eft'ions of our good
Sutie&s
Q/* ENGLAND 245
SubjecJs at home, and to procure the Ajfiftance of our inter-regnum,
Friends and Allies abroad ', for the Recovery of that 1660.
Right, which, by the Laws of God and Man, is un~ ^— — v— -^
questionable, and of which we have been fo long dif- ay<
poffejfid by fuch Force, and with thofe Cir cum/lances^
os we do not defire to aggravate by any Jharp Expref-
fions ; but rather wijh that the Memory of what is
pajl may be buried to the World. That we have more
endeavoured to prepare and to improve the Affections of
our Subjects at home for our Rejl oration, than to pro~
cure AJJijlance from abroad to invade either of our
Kingdoms, is as manifejl to the World : And we can-
not give a better Evidence that we are ftill of the
fume Mind than in this Conjuncture, when common
Reafon muft fatisfy all Men that we cannot be without
Affiftance from abroad, we chufe rather to fend to you,
who have it in your own Povjer to prevent that Ruin
and Defolation which a War would bring upon the
Nation, and to make the whole Kingdom owe the Peace,
Happinejs, Security, and Glory it /hall enjoy, to your
Virtue ; and to acknowledge that your Armies have
complied with their Obligations for which they were
fir ft raifed, for the Preservation of the Protejlant
Religion, the Honour and Dignity of the King, the
Privileges of Parliament, the Liberty and Property of
the Subject, and the Fundamental Laws of the Land;
and that you have vindicated that Truft which others
moft perfidioujly abufed and betrayed. How much we
defire and refolve to contribute to thcfe good Ends, ivill
appear to you by our inclofed Declaration, which we
defire you to caufe to be publifhed for the Information
and Satisfaction of all good Sltbje&s, who do not defire
a further Effufion of precious Chrijlian Blood; but to
have their Peace and Security founded upon that which
can only fupport it, an Unity of Affettions amongft
curfclves, an equal Adminijlration- of 'Jujlice to Men,
rs/toring Parliaments to a full Capacity of providing
for all that is amifs, and the Laws of the Land to
their due Veneration.
You have been your f elves Witness of fo many Re-
volutions, and have had jo much Experience how far
tiny P rue Sand Authority, that is only affumedby Paf-
0.3 J^
246 The Parliamentary HISTORY*
Inter-regnum. feon and Appetite ) and not fupparted by Juf.ice, It
1660. from providing for tbe-Happinefs and Peace of the
"J People, or from receiving any Obedience from them,
without which no Government can provide for them>
that you may very reajonably Relieve that God hath not
been well pleafed with the Attempts that have been
made,fmce he hath ufually increased the Confufton, by
giving all the Succefs that hath been dejired, and
brought that to pafs without Effett, which the De~
figners have prcpofed as the beji Means to fettle and
compife the Nation; and therefore we cannot but hope
and believe that you will concur with us in the Remedy
we have applied; which, to human Understanding , it
only proper for the Ills we all groan under ; and that
you will make your/elves the blejfed Inftruments to bring
this Bisffmg of Peace and Reconciliation upon King
and People, it being the ufual Method in which Di-
vine Providence dtlighieth itjdf to ufe and fanfJify
thofe very Means which ill Men defign for the Satif-
f a El ion of private and particular Ends and Ambition^
and other wicked Purposes, to wholefome and public
Ends, and to eftablijh that Good which is mojl con-
trary to the Defigners ; which is the greatejl Mani-
feftation of God's peculiar Kindnejs to a Nation that
can be given in this World. How far we refolve to
preferve your Interefls and reward your Services, we
refer to our Declaration ; and we hope God will in-
fpire you to perform your Duty to us and to your native
Country, whofe Happinefs cannot be feparated from
each other.
We have intruded our well-beloved Servant Sir
John Grenville, one of the Gentlemen of cur Bed-
Chamber, to deliver this unto you, and to give us an
Account of ) our Reception of it^ and to defer e you, in
cur Name, that it may be publijked ; and Jo we bid
you farewell.
Given at our Court at Br?da this 744th of April,
1660, in the twelfth Year of oar Reign.
Received May I, 1660.
Bcfides the foregoing, the following Letter from
the King was fent to the Lord Mayor, Alder-
men,
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men, and Common Council of the City of Lon- Inter-regnum.
don: 166°-
To our Trufty and Well-beloved the Lord Mayor, May.
Aldermen, and Common Council of our City of
London.
CHARLES R.
Trufty and Well-beloved, we greet you well.
TN thefe great Revolutions which of late have hap -To the Lord
•* pened in that our Kingdom, to the Wonder andM*y°T and Cit.v
Amazement of all the World, there is none that we°f Lo"J<"t'
have looked upon with more Comfort than the Jo-fre-
quent and public Manifejlations of their Affections to
us in the City of London, which hath exceedingly
raifed our Spirits, and which >, no doubt, hath proceeded
from the Spirit of God, and his extraordinary Mercy
to the Nation, which hath been encouraged by you, and
your good Example to ajjert that Government, under
which it hath fo many hundred Tears enjoyed as great
Felicity as any Nation in Europe, and to difcounte-
nance the Imaginations of thoje who would fubjeff our
Subjects to a Government they have not yet devifed ;
and, to fatisfy the Pride and Ambition of a few ill
Men, would introduce the mo ft arbitrary and tyranni-
cal Power that was ever yet heard of. How long we
have all fuffered under thofe and the like Devices, all
the World takes Notice, to the no-fmall Reproach of
the Englim Nation, which we hope is now providing
for its own Security and Redemption, and will be ny
longer bewitched by thofe Inventions. How defer ous ive ,
are to contribute to the obtaining the Peace and Happi*
nefs of cur Subjects without further Effufion of Blood,
and hoiv far we are from defiring to recover what be-
longs to us by a War, if it can be otherwije done, will
appear to you by the inclofed Declaration ; tvhich,
together with this our Letter, we have intruded our
right trujiy and ivell-beloved Coufin the Lord Fifcount
Mordaunt, and our trujly and well-beloved Servant
Sir JohnGrenville, Knt. one of the Gentlemen of our
Bed-Chamber, to deliver to you, to the end that you,
and all the rejl of our good Subjects of that our City of
London, (to whom we drfire it Jhould be fublifncd)
248 ffie Parliamentary
lAter-regnum. may know bow far we are from the Defire of Rt*
«li6c^' t venge, or that the Peace, Happinefs, and Security of
May, ^e Kingdom jbould be raifed upon any otbsr Founda>-
tlon than the Ajfeflion and Hearts of our Subjects*
and their oivn Confents. ffle have not the leaft Doubt
of your jujl Senfe of thofe our Condefcenfions, or of
your Zeal to advance 'fnd promote the fame good End^
by difpojing all Men to meet us with the fame Affec-
tion and Tendernefsy in reftoring the Fundamental
Laws to that Reverence that is due to themt and upav
the Preservation whereof all our Happinefs depends :
And you will have no Reafon to doubt of enjoying your
full Share in that Happinefs t and of the improving it
by our particular AffeSlion to you,. It is very natural
for all Men to do all the Good they can for their native
Country ) and to advance the Honour of it : And as we
have that full AffeSlion for the Kingdom in general^
fo we would not be thought to be without fame extraor*
dinary Kindnefs for our native City in particular^
which we (hall manifejl en all Occafeons^ net only by
renewing their Charter^ and confirming all thofe Pri-
vileges which they have received from eur Predecef*-
Jors> but by adding and granting any new Favours;
•which may advance the Trade^ Wealth^ and Honour
cf that our native City ; for which we will be fo Jol~
iicitoiiS) that vje doubt not but that it will, in due
Time, receive fame Benefit and Advantage in all thofa
RefpeffS) even from our oiun Obfervatien and Expe^
rience abroad : And we are moft confident voe jhall never
be dif appointed in our Expectation of all pojjible Service
from your Ajfeftions ; and fo we bid you farewell.
Given at our Court at Breda the ^Vth Day of
1660, in the twelfth Year of our Reign.
After reading thefe Letters, with the Declara-
tion, in the two Houfes, the Lords ordered Sir
"John Grenville to be called in again, and the Speaker,
by Direction of the Houfe, gave him Thanks, in their
Name, for his Care in bringing this gracious Meflage
from the King. They alfo ordered, That the King's
Letter to them and the Declaration fhould be forth-
with printed and publifhed, with this Tide, His Ma-
jefly't
Of E N G L A N D. 249
] fifty'5 graciduS Lettef and Declaration, fent to the Inter-regnuim
Houfe of Peers by Sir John Grenville, Knt. Laftly,
the Lords appointed a Committee to confider of A
Letter of Thanks to the King for his gracious Mef-
fage fent, this Day, to the Houfe, and to prefent it
for their Lordfhips Confideration,
And now, to do Juftice to the Houfe of Com*
tnons, we fhall give the Proceedings of that Houffi
on this Day, as they are entered in their Journals^
in which all the further Trarifaclions of the Lords
are interwoven ; fo that there will be no Occafion
for Repetitions on that Score. We think it need-
lefs to make arty Apology for re- printing the King's
Letters, &c. to both Houfes ; for, tho' they have
been many Times publifhed, and are extant in al-
jnoft every Englifn Hiftory of thefe Times, yet
they are fo confonant to thefe Parliamentary In-
quiries, as not to be omitted in this Work. They
are entered, at large, in the Journals of both Houfes j
and, in the late printed Edition of the Commons*
the Editors of which have taken Care to give a Simi-
litude of the King's Hand-writing, on the Top of
each Letter, in Imitation of the Originals.
Mr. Rich and Mr. Eltonhead^ Matters of the Chan-
cery, being fent by the Lords, with a Meflage, defiring
a Conference with the Commons this Day (May i)
at Eleven o'Clock, in the Painted-Chamber^ in or-
der to the Settlement of the great Affairs of the
Kingdom, the Me/Fengers were called in, and the
Speaker acquainted them, That the Houfe had con-
fidered their Meflage, and would return an Anfwer
by Meflengers of their own.
Then it was refolved, nem. con. ' That an An-
fwer be prepared to his Majefty's Letter, exprefling
the great and joyful Senfe of this Houfe of his gra-
cious Offers, and their humble and hearty Thanks
to his Majefty for the fame, with Profeflions of their
Loyalty and Duty to his Majefty ; and that this
Houfe will give a fpeedy Anfwer to his Majefty's
gracious Propofals.'
Mr. Finch, Mr. Annefe^ Sir Anthony JJbley Coo-
per*
250 The Parliamentary HISTORY
er-regnum. per^ the Lord-General, Sir William Lewis, Mr.
Morris, and Mr. Holies, were ordered to prepare the
Anfwer.
It was alfo refolved, nem. con. * That the Sum of
50,000 /. be prefented to the King's Majefty from
this Houfe ; and the Committee appointed to draw
up the Anfwer to the King's Letter were ordered to
go to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons
of the City of London, to confider with them how
the faicl Sum of 50, coo/, may be raifed ; what Se-
curity they will deiire for the Repayment thereof
with Interefl after the Rate of 61. per Cent, and to
offer fuch Security as they fhall think fit, for Re-
payment thereof to the Perfons who fhall advance
the fame.'
* Refolved, That it be referred to the fame Com-
mittee appointed to confider with the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London,
about a further Sum to be raifed and applied for the
paying of the Army, and to confider how the Arrears
of the Army may be fatisfied.'
In our numerous Collection of Pamphlets of thefe
Times, we meet with a Speech faid to be made by
an Honourable Member of the Houfe of Commons;
but neither Name nor Time it was fpoke in is men-
tioned in the Title. It is only faid to be made on
the Re-eftablifhment of Kingly Government in this
Nation ; which, as it was the Topic both Houfes of
Parliament were then upon, we fhall introduce here ;
and we believe the Reader will judge with us, that,
if it was not, it ought to have been fpoke on that
Occafion.
jl pertinent SPEECH made ly an Honourable Mem-
ber of the Houfe of Commons, tending to the Efia-
blijbment of Kingly Government, as the only PFay to
the fettling of thefe Three dijlrafted Nations in
their due Rigbtst Privileges, and Immunities a.
£?fcch rein; in Mr. Speaker,
Cjmmcn"leon° ' A ^ wc w^° were forcibly excluded by the Am-
Kindy Go van- ,/jL bition of General Cromwell, and his rebel-
ment.
a Lendw, printed, 1660,
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lious Army, from fitting in the Houfe, or perform-
ing thofe Trufts impofed on us by the People, as l66o«
their Repiefentatives in Parliament, ought to acknow- """
ledge our Re- invefting as a high Providence of God,
and look upon it as a gracious Difpenfation of his
Mercy to us and thefe Three Nations ; fo I think
it our Duty and Obligation, in anfwer to fuch a Mer-
cy, to endeavour, to the utmoft of our Power, the
re-eftablifhing of thefe Nations in Peace and Quiet-
nefs, and the Settlement of fuch a Government as
may beft quadrate with the Spirits and Temper of
the People.
4 That Viciflitudes and Changes of Government,
fuch as hath lately been impofed upon us by a Parcel
of the moft fanatic and mad-brain'd Spirits of the Na-
tion, do clearly tend to the Ruin of any Kingdom,
Commonwealth, or Society of Men whatfoever, we
have lately feen by too fad Experience. Such Chan-
ges being only the Scourges wherewith God chaftifes
rebellious Kingdoms, and fuch Spirits only fent
Into the World to be the Ruin and Diflra&ion of
thofe Nations they live in.
« I need not at all infift upon our forcible Exclu-
fion ; thofe Things we refolved on before it ; the So-
lemn League and Covenant we took to eftablifh
and defend the King and his Succeflbrs in their
Eftate ; the many Fallacies and Cheats fince put up-
on the Nation by thofe, who, under a Pretence of
Right to eftablifh a Government over them, have
only endeavoured to maintain their own, or introduce
others to execute an unjuft, illegal, and arbitrary
Power over thefe Kingdoms.
c But, Mr. Speaker, let me fay a little to the pre-
fent Senfe of the Nation j let us take the Generality
of the People, even to the very Plowman, (who is
not pofiefled with a fanatic Spirit) and we {hall
find that they were now fo highly fenfible of the
Oppreflions and Burthens laid upon them, that, like
defperate Men, they are ready to catch at what they
before difavowed, and gape after the Government
by a King, which they formerly fo refolutely decla-
and fought againft ; by fo fad Experience have
thcv
252 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inier-regnum. they learned the Difference between the Governmen t
1660. fry a Prince and by Peafants : And though they
e-~v~---' might (if thofe who then pretended themfelves a
Parliament and the Supreme Authority of the Na-
tion, had ilruck whilft the Iron was hot) have ac-
cepted of aGovernment by a Commonwealth, which,
•was then fo highly pretended to be eftablifhed ; yet,
having now found out the fraudulent Defigns of thofe
Men, who, under fuch Pretences, endeavoured only
to perpetuate themfelves in the Government, to en-
flave the People, intrench upon their Liberties, and
ingrofs their Eftates, they are wholly revived from
that fanatic Slumber fo far, that, had God continued
ilill his Scourge upon this Nation, the Name of a
Parliament would, e'er 1660 had been paft, have
grown as odious to the People, who were fufficiently
gulled with Mock Reprefentatives, as that of a King
\vas in 1648. And fufficiently odious indeed al-
ready grown, the whole Nation groaning under their
Exorbitances, having turned the Scale, and made
the Name of a King grown fweet again in their
Mouths, they finding by Experience, that the Go-
vernment of a King, though tyrannical, is far better
than the ufurping Tyranny of many Plebeans.
* Nor, Sir, do the common People only undcrfiand
their own particular Intereft, but begin to pry into
a National ; the lawful Heir, who was formerly
cried up for the common Enemy of England's Peace,
is now (with as much Applaufe, as before with
Difgrace) fainted, and now looked upon as the
only Perfon whofe Re-admiflion to the Crown can
make thefe Nations happy, and restore them to their
due Rights, Liberties, and Privileges ; there being
many, who are now liftened to as Oracles, living to
recount the Halcyon Days they enjoyed under his
Father.
4 'Tis, Sir, an old Proverb, and has proved as
true as old, Vex PopuliVox Deiy The general Voice
of the People is the Oracle by which God declares
his A/lind ; they are his Prophet by whom he fpeaks :
What have we then to do ? 'Tis the Voice of God,
*tis the hearty Defires of the People, 'tis the Intereft
of
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of the Nation, 'tis according to our own Oath in inter-regn
the Solemn League and Covenant : And fhall we, 660.
when prefs'd by all thefe, ftill refift the Re-admit-
tance of the lawful Heir to the Crown ? Shall we
ftill refift our own Intereft ? Shall we ftill deny the
Cry of the People for Right? Or (hall we further
provoke the Vengeance of God upon us for thofe
crying Sins of his Father's Murder and his Expul-
fion ?
' But, Mr. Speaker, there are many People, fay
fome, whofe Interefts are fo oppofite to that of the
lawful Heir, that they cannot fubfift together: Thefo
jVlen have bought his, the Bifhop*, Deans and
Chapters Lands, and have ventured their Lives and
Fortunes againft him : Nay, it maybe objected, That
the whole Nation hath been engaged againft him to
regain their Liberties, and free themfelves from the
pretended Tyrannies of his Father. But, Sir, did
the Parliament, when it was free and full, ever
deem or vote the late King a Tyrant or Traitor ?
Was his Imprifonment, much lefs his Death, ever
voted in the Houfe when fo ? Was not the firft ta-
king up of Arms, under Declaration, to maintain
the Parliament's Privileges without infringing the
King's Prerogative? Did we not all unanimoufly
fwear to maintain the King in his due Rights, to
bring him back to his Parliament, to fettle him in
his Throne with Glory ? How comes it then to pafs
that we, who, when we were excluded the Houfe,
left a King alive, left a Houfe of Lords (the fecon j
JEftate of the Kingdom, and which only can com-
plete a Free Parliament) fitting without a Houfe
of Commons, full and chofen by the free Votes of
the People; now, at our Admiffion, find our King
murdered, our Houfe of Peers excluded, the Houfe
of Commons reduced to the fifth Part of their duq
Number, and their numerous Fellow-Members im^
peded fitting for eleven Years ?
' I think, Mr. Speaker, it would not be amifs to
examine by what Authority thefe Things have been
dpne. Is it thus that the whole Nation was en-.
gaged
254 The Parliamentary HISTORY
aged to regain their Liberties ? A fair Hazard :
Jut what Power had thofe who continued fitting to
execute this arbitrary Authority ? Which of the
Fundamental Laws of the Land did inveft them with
Authority to cut off their King's Head, to degrade
the Biftiops, to difmherit his Pofterity, to abolifli
Kingly Government, under which this Nation had
fo long and happily flourifhed, and to fell the King's,
Queen's, Princes, Bilhops, Deans and Chapters
Lands, or rather to enflave themfelves in them, and
to aci at their Will and Pleafure, tho' to the Ruin
of the Nation ?
* The Law allows any Man to take his own
Goods where he finds them, though bought by the
then Pofleffor : Why fhould not then thofe Men,
who have bought thofe Lands which were, in Ef-
fect, ftolen, (the others having no Power to fell
them) be inforced to reftore them, and (if there
could be any, their Woods and Rents having already
more than made good the Purchafes) fit down with
the Lofs for their furreptitious Bargains ?
< But, Sir, 'tis objected that the violent Reftora-
tion of thefe Lands will (together with that Bug-
bear, Liberty of Confcience) breed a new Civil
War : That the Land hath been fuiHciently water'd
with its native Blood : That a new Difturbance
will be the Ruin of the whole : And that we have
found, by Experience, that it is better to fit flill and
content ourfelves under the Oppreflion, than feek
Help by Civil Difturbance, whofe Remedy proves
often worfe than the Difeafe ; fo that, thefe Lands
not being reftored, the Re-admiffion of the lawful
Heir may be judged impoflible, there being no
Eitate found to maintain a Kingly Court and Charge.
' Could we, Mr. Speaker, find Ways to maintain
our afpiring General Cromwell, and to keep his
Court in more Splendour than ever did King of
England? And cannot we as well find Means to
maintain the true and lawful Heir, the Charge
likewife likely to be abated by the Pay of the Army
being clearly taken off; which, by his Re-admit-
in tflt, will be found fuperfluous ?
N 2 « I
Of E N G L A N D. 255
* I need not at all enlarge myfelf in Reafons ; Inter-regnum.
there are none fo dull but muft neceflarily yield to
his Re-admitment, except their Intereft infatuates
their Underftandings. Let us then, Mr. Speaker,
who are yet looked upon by the People to have our
Hands dipp'd, in fome Meafure, in the Nation's
Miferies, by beginning that deplorable War, lay a
Plafter to the Wounds, and Balfom to the Sores, of
thefe diftreffed Nations, by reftoring them their
Kings as at the firft, and their Princes as at the Be-
ginning.
4 Nor let us be aftiamed, after having fo long
gone out of the Way, after all this Obftinacy of
Spirit, after the Expence of fo much Blood and
Treafure, to return again unto thofe Paths of Truth
from which we have fo greatly deviated; but rather
repent for the Wrongs we have done our Prince, for
the Wrongs we have done our Country, and for the
Wrongs we have done ourfelves, and recall our true
and rightful Prince, who will, without Doubt, be fo
gracious as to pardon all Offences.
' But if, Sir, there be fome particular Crimes of
fo high a Nature that they admit not Pardon, fhall
the Nation ftill remain miferable for the Offences of
thofe particular Men ? Shall England flill be un-
happy for Want of an Axe or an Halter to be be-
ftowed on fome who have fo juftly deferved it ? It
muft not, cannot be.
* Pardon, Sir, this Pafiion and Prolixity, and give
me Leave to anfwer one more Obje&ion; /. e. That
the People would be better fatisfied if this Parlia-
ment would wholly omit the fettlirtg of any Govern-
ment, and leave it to a Free Parliament. Though
this be difputable, yet we will grant it : But then
what a Parliament fhall they have, we have been
long debating about their Qualifications ? Shall the
People have a Free Parliament, or (hall they not ?
If they fhall have a Free Parliament, then muft they
have Free Liberty to chufe whom they pleafe ; if
not, we do but follow former Steps, and ftill endea-
vour to enflave them.
<To
256 The Parliamentary HISTORV
< To conclude : Mr. Speaker, we may, in Rea-
fon, judge, that the firft Thing done by a Free Par-
liament, will be to invite the lawful Heir to Poflef-
fion, there being no Likelihood that any other Go-
vernment can be fettled ; and therefore I think we
had as good do it now upon fuch Terms and Con-
tlitions as may fecure the Peace and Quiet of thefe
Nations, and be fafe to them who have engaged
againft him.'
A Conference having been defired by the Lords
y.'ith the other Houfe, the Commons fent up Sir
George Booth to let them know, that they were
resdy for it as they defired. The Committee ap-
pointed by the Commons to manage this Conference,
were, Mr. Annejley^ Mr. Finch , Mr. Turner , Lord
Falkland^ Mr, Pi.erepolnt^ Serjeant Hales, and Ser-
jeant Brown. The Subject was the Settlement of
the Government of thefe Nations ; the very Topig
on which the Speech before given turns.
In the Afternoon of this Day, for they fat both.
Ends of it, Mr. Annejley reported the Effect of the
Conference had with the Lords : That the Earl of
Jlfanchefter had acquainted the Committee of this
Houfe with the Lords' Receipt of a Letter from his
Majefty, and of a Declaration inclofed : He told us,
it was a Maxim, " Where the Word of a King is,
there is Power ;" and where the Word of our King
is, as it is now received, there is Truth ; and Power
and Truth are the beft Supports of Government:
fte wifhed us to confider the niiftaken Maxims of
fome Politicians, \]\m Diftruft and Jealouiies are the
Nerves and Sinews of Wifdom ; but he hopes that
we will rather sonfider that Wifdom from above,
which is firft pure, * *b eafy to be intreated ; and
that all Diftruft and Jeajoufy might be laid afide :
He took Notice of fome new 3tate-BuiJders» that
had been framing imaginary States of Qoveui'
jne.U; which brought into Confideration our antient
Government, the beft in the World : And there-
upon took Notjce of a Vote in the Lords' Houfc,
con*
lr Sic fa Orif,
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concerning the Government of this Kingdom, to the Inter-regnum,
Tenor following, viz. *66^
" The Lords do own and declare, That, accord- 7, "~
ing to the Antient and Fundamental Laws of this
Kingdom, the Government is, and ought to be, by
King, Lords, and Commons."
' Then he proceeded further, and took Notice of
the great Revolutions and Changes that have been,
and the Occafion of them to be, the Separation of
the Head from the Members j and therefore he ac~
quainted the Committee with another Vote of the
Lords, viz.
" That the Lords, having a deep Senfe of the
Miferies and Diffractions that this Kingdom hath
been involved in, fmce the violent Attempts to dif-
iblve the eftablimed Government; and conceiving
that the feparating the Head from the Members hath
been the chiefeft Occafion of all our Diforders and
Confufions, they defire that fome Ways may be
confidered how, to make up thefe Breaches, and to
obtain the King's Return again to his People."
' And that he alfo acquainted them with a third
Vote of the Lords, in order to a further Proceeding
on the former, viz.
<e That a Committee of the Houfe of Commons
may be appointed to meet with a Committee of the
Lords, to prepare fuch Things as may be in order*
to thefe good and necelTary End's j and to frame a
Letter of Thanks and Acknowledgments to his Ma-
jefty for his gracious Letter an4 Declaration."
* And, laftly, his Majefty's faid Letter and Decla-
ration, lent to the Lords, was read there ; and that
they had intruded the Committee with them, that
they might alfo be read here, and a Refolution gi-
ven upon the whole.'
After hearing this Report, the Commons ordered
the King's Letter to the Lords, with his Majefty's
Declaration there inclofed, to be read ; and then it
was
« Refolved, &c. That this Houfe doth agree with
the Lords, and do own and declare, that, accord -
in** to the Antient and Fundamental Laws of this
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258 We Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum, Kingdom, the Government is, and ought to be, by
l66°- King, Lords, and Commons.'
' Ordered, alfo, That the following Committee
be appointed to perufe the Journals and Records,
and to examine what pretended Acts or Orders
have paired, which are inconfiftent with the Go-
vernment, by King, Lords, and Commons, and
report them, with their Opinion thereon, to this
Houfe ; and alfo to offer fuch Expedients, as may
carry on the Courts of Juftice of this Kingdom j and
how Fines, Recoveries, AfTurances, Judgments,
and Decrees, pafled, may be confirmed and made
good. Mr. Prynne, Mr. Finch, Lord Falkland^
Mr. Turner, Sir William Lewis, Serjeant Hales, Sir
Walter Erie, Sir Anthony JJhley Cooper, Lord Com-
miflioner Tyrrel, Cope, Serjeant Glynne, Lord
Commiflioner Widdrington, Sir 'John Court op, and
all the Gentlemen of the Long Robe.
May 2. The Lords did nothing material this
Day, but what will be taken Notice of in the Pro-
ceedings of the Commons, except reading, a firft
and fecond Time, an Ordinance for making George
Monke, Efq; Captain-General of all the Land-
Forces, &c. and committing it. They alfo ordered,
That the Committee for Privileges do take into
their Confideration the great Violation that hath
lately been made upon the Peers of this Kingdom.
The Houfe of Commons were bufy, this Day, in
altering and correcting the Form of an Anfwer to
the King's Letter to them ; which, being all read,
was agreed to, and ordered to be fuperfcribed,
To the King's Moft Excellent Majejly. Ordered that
Sir John Grenville be called to the Bar, and that
the Speaker return him Thanks for his Care, more-
over the Houfe voted him 500 /. to buy him a Jewel,
as a Teftimony of their Refpecls to him, and as a
Badge of Honour, for bringing fo gracious a Letter
from the King's Majefty to this Houfe. Ordered that
the Council of State do take Care to pay the faid
500/. to Sir John, forth with, out of the Contingences
of the Council. — More of this hereafter.
A
Of E N G L A N D. 259
A Meflage came from the Lords to acquaint this
Jloufe, That they had appointed a Committee of
eight Lords to meet Another of the Commons, to
confider of an Anfwer to his Majefty's gracious
Letter and Declaration. To which the Commons
returned this Al'fwer, by Sir Henry Cbolmley, That
they had already agreed upon an Anfwer to the King's
Letter, directed to them, and intended to fend it to
his Majefty by fome Members of their own EToufe ;
and he was alfo to acquaint their Lprdfhips, That
the Commons had concurred with them in their Vote
touching the Fundamental Government of the King'
dom.
Alderman Robinfon informed the Houfe, That be
was commanded, by the Lord Mayor, AJdermen,
and Common Council of the City of London, to ac-
quaint them that they had received a Letter a an4
Declaration from the King's Majefty, by the Hands
of the Lord Vifcount Mordaunt and Sir 'John Gren-
ville ; and that they defire the Leave of this Houfe
to give an Anfwer to them; tp which the floufe
i;eadily agreed.
May 3. This Day, in the Houfe of Lords, the
Earl of Manchefter reported the Draught of an An-
fwer to the King's gracious Letter to their Houfe j
•which, being read, was approved of, and ordered to
be fent to the King by the Earls of Oxford, lVar~
<ivick, Middlesex? VifcoumHergford, Lord Berkeley,
and Lord Brooke; who were to confider what Time
they defire to prepare themfelves to go. A Meflage
was fent dowjn to the other Houfe, to acquaint them
with this Vote. The Letter of the Peers to the
King is entered in their Journals, and was in hi/
Verbis:
For the KIN G'S Mofl Excellent Maje/fy,
Moft Gracious Sovereign,
< X7"OUR loyal Subjects the Peers, now afiem-The Anfw*r of
« j[ bled, .do, with all Humility and Thankful- the Houfe of
6 nefs, return their Acknowledgments to ypur Ma- £U,tj3j
a Before given at p. 247.
260 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter- regnum. c jefty for your gracious Letter and Declaration 5 and
^"L .* do efteem it their greateft Honour that your 'Ma-
Ma^ *' iefty is pleafed to exprefs a Confidence oif their
ay" < Counfels and Endeavours for the compofing the
' fad and 'unhappy Diffractions of your Kingdoms ;
' and they .own this as their great Advantage, that
* they may now act in Difcharge of their own Duty
* by your Majefty's Command. Your Majefty's
* great and many Sufferings have long affec*t.ed their
« Hearts with deep Refentments of Trouble and
' Sorrow; but the fame Power that uiurped and pro-
' faned your Sceptre, diverted them of their Rights
* and Privileges, 'and kept them under Mich PrefTures
' and Difficulties, as they were rendered incapable
' of ferving your Majefty in order to thofe Ends, to
' which their Duty and Allegiance did engage them.
* It hath been their conftant Defire that the Nation
* had continued happy and innocent; but yourMa-
' jefty's Piety and Wifdom hath {hewed you to what
* Degree your Clemency is to be extended ; and we
* hope all your Subjects will anfwer your Majefty's
'Grace and Favour to the utmoft Point of Fide-
' lity and Obedience. The Peers have a juft
* Ground to own a more particular Dependence and
c Subferviency to the Throne of Majefty, not only
* by the Prefcriptions of Law, but by that AfFeclion
* and Duty which is fixed in their Hearts upon the
e Foundations of Loyalty, which gives them the
' Privilege to ftile themfelves
Tour Majefty 's mo ft loyal,
Moft dutiful,
Weflminfter, May 3,7- . . a ...
I660< ' ^ And moji obedient
Subje£ls and Servants.
Signed in the Name, and by the Command^ of the
faid Houfe of- Peers \ by
E. MANCHESTER,
Speaker of the Houfe of Peers pro Tern pore.
And, as if the Lords intended to vie with theHoufe
of Commons inTeftimonies of Loyalty to their Sove-
reign,
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reign, an Order was made, That the Statues of the inter-regnum.
late King's Majefty be fet up again in all the Places l66°-
from whence they were pulled down : And that the ' — luT*^
Arms of the Commonwealth be demolifhed and ta-
ken away wherever they are, and the King's Arms
be put up in their Stead : That the King's Majefty
be publickly prayed for by all Minifters in their
Churches : And, laftly, that fome Place be confi-
d^ered of where General Monke's Statue may be fet
up. All which Particulars were referred to thei
Committee of Privileges to confider of and make
Report to the Houfe.
An Order was made by the Lords to put a Stop,
or Stay, to the demolifhing, defacing, or commit-
ting Wafte, in the Houfes or Lands, Park, Woods,
&c. belonging to the King, the Duke of Bucking-
ham, the Earl of Worce/far^ and fome other of the
Peers, where fad Havock had been made for fome
Years.
The Houfe of Commons heard feveral Reports,
from their Committee of Privileges and Elections,
concerning double Returns, which were regulated.
Amongft thefe we find that Edmund Ludlow^ Efq;
our Mem'orialifl:, was voted duly elected for the Bo-
rough of tiindon, in Wilts \ but then he was order'J
to attend the Service of the Houfe on that Day
Se'nnight.
A Committee of this Houfe had been appointed
to go to the City of Londcnt to borrow Money of
them for the prefent Occafions ; who returning,
Mr. Annejley reported from them, That they had
treated with the Lord Mayor, fcr'c. for a Loan of
IOO,OOO /. which the City was willing to advance
on the Security of an Ordinance for three Months
AiBfirnent ; the Money arifmg from it to be paid
in to the Chamber of London; and that their Cham-
berlain fhould be Receiver for the whole. The
Houfe agreed to this Propofal ; and alfo voted 6 /.
fur Cent. Inrereft, from the Time of receiving to
the paying in the Sum. An Ordinance for three
Months AiTefiment was ordered to be brought in the
ncxi Morning.
R 3 The
262 'The Parliamentary HISTORY
The Committee who were ordered to prepare
the aforefaid Ordinance, "were alfoto confider how
the 50,000 /. which was voted to be prefented
to his Majefty may be remitted to him, to his beft
Advantage, and ib that there be no Lofs upon the
Exchange.
The Houfe being informed that Sir John Gren~
'ville, who brought the King's Letter, was at the
Door, he was called in to receive the Thanks of
this Houfe, according to the Order of Yefterday ;
who, ftanding at the Bar, the Speaker faid to him,
in Effect, as followeth :
$!? jtbti Grtn- t sjr J0kn Grenvit/e, I need not tell you with
Sfs eaker.dbXwhat gratefu' and thankful Hearts the Commons,
now aflembled in Parliament, have received his
Majeftyrs gracious Letter : Res ipfe loquitur : You
yourfelf have been ocularis & auricularis Teftis de
J^ei Veritate : Our Bells and our Bonfires have
already proclaimed his Majefty's Goodnefs, and
our Joys. We have told the People that our
King;, the Glory of England, is coming home again;
and "they have refounded it back again in our Ears,
that they are ready, and their Hearts are open, to
receive him. Both Parliament and People have
cried aloud to the King of Kings, in their Prayers,
Long live King Charles the Second ! !
4 Sir, 1 am likevvife to tell you, that this Houfe
doth not think it fit that you fhould return back to
our Royal Sovereign, without fome Teftimony of
Refpect to yourfelf: They have therefore ordered
and appointed that 500 /. fhall be delivered to you
to buy a Jewel, as a Badge of that Honour which
is due to a Perfon whom the King hath honoured
to be MelTenger of fo gracious a Meflage : And I
am commanded, in the Name of the Houfe, to re-
turn you their very hearty Thanks.'
After this the Houfe lent a MefTage to the Lords
by Sir William Lewis, to acquaint their Lordfhips,
That they had prepared an Anfwer to his Majefty'a
gracious Letter fent to their Houfe, and that they
Of E N G L A N D. 263
ntended to fend the fame by fome Members of their
own.
' Refolved, That, for determining what Members
of this Houfe (hall carry the Letter to his Majefty, the
feveral Members of it (hall put in Papers of Names ;
and that it be referred to a Committee to view thofe
Papers, and make Report to the Houfe who have
the greateft Number of Voices. Sir Henry Yelver-
ton, Major-General Brown, Sir Henry Cholmley^
and the Lord Howard, were nominated a Commit-
tee accordingly/
' Ordered, alfo, That the Letter agreed to by this
Houfe, in Anfwer to his Majefty's gracious Letter,
fliall be kept by the Clerk, under fuch Privacy, that
no Copy thereof may come to any Hand, till it hath
been communicated to his Majefty.'
This Letter is not entered in the Journals ; but
we have a Copy of it in our Collection, printed, by
Order of the Commons, by Edward Hit/bands and
Thomas New(omby from which Authority we give it.
To the KING'S Moft Excellent Majejly,
Mojl Royal Sovereign,
your Majefty's moft loyal Subjects, the The Anfwer of
Commons of England affembled in Par the Houfe of
« liament, do, with all Humblenefs, prefent u
* your Majefty the unfeigned Thankfulnefs of our
« Hearts, for thofe gracious Expreflions of Piety and
' Goodnefs, and Love to us and the Nations under
* your Dominion, which your Majefty's Letter of
' April ft* dated from Breda, together with the
* Declaration inclofed in it, of the fame Date, do
* fo evidently contain ; for which we do, in the firft
* Place, look up to the great King of Kings* and
* blefs his Name, who hath put thefe Thoughts in-
* to the Heart of our King, to make him glorious in
' the Eyes of his People, as thofe great Deliverances
« which that Divine Majefty hath afforded unto your
* Royal Perfon from many Dangers, and the Sup-
1 port which he hath given unto your heroic and
* princely Mind, under various Trials, make it ap-
4 pea*
264 'The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. * pear to all the World, that you are precious in his
1660. * Sight>
^^j^"""^ * And give us Leave to fay, That as your Ma-
* jefty is pleafed to declare your Confidence in Par-
* Jiamcnts, your Efteem of them, and this your
' Judgment and Character of them, That they arii
* fo neccflary for the Government of the Kingdom,
* that neither Prince nor People can be in any tole-
* rable Degree happy without them ; and therefore
6 fay, that you will hearken unto their Counfels, be
* tender of their Privileges, and careful to preferve
* and protect them : So we truft, and will with all
4 Humility be bold to affirm, That your Majefty
* will not be deceived in us, and that we will never
* depart from that Fidelity which we owe unto your
* Majefty, that Zeal which we bear unto your Ser-
' vice, and a conftant Endeavour to advance your
' Honour and Greatnefs.
' And we befeech your Majefty we may add this
* further, for the Vindication of Parliaments, and
* even of the laft Parliament convened under your
* Royai Father, of happy Memory ; when, as your
e Majefty well obferves, through Miflakes and Mif-
' undcrftanding>, many Inconveniences were pro-
* d-uccd which were not intended : That thofe very
* Inconveniences could not have been brought upon
* us by thofe Perfons who had defigned them, with-
* out firft violating the Parliament itfelf ; for they
* well knew it was not poflible to do a Violence to
* that facrcd Perfon, whilft the Parliament, which
* had vowed and covenanted for the Defence and
e Safety of that Perfon, remained entire. Surely,
* Sir, as the Perfons of our Kings have ever been
* dear unto Parliaments, fo we cannot think of that
* horrid Act committed againft the precious Life of
e our late Sovereign, but with fuch a Deteftation and
* Abhorrency as we want Words to exprefs it.
* And, next to wifhing it had never been, we wifh
' it may never be remembered by your Majefty, to
e be unto you an Occafion of Sorrow, as it will ne-
8 ver be remembered by us, but with that Grief and
c Trouble of Mind which it Jeferves, being the
* greateit
Of E N G L A N D. 265
e greateft Reproach that ever was incurred by any inter- regnum.
' of the Englljb Nation ; an Offence to all the Pro- 1660.
*• teftant Churches abroad, and a Scandal to the *-— ""V
' Profeffion of the Truth of Religion here at home ;
c though both Profefiion and true Profeflbrs, and the
' Nation itfelf, as well as the Parliament, were mofl
< innocent of it, having been only the Contrivance
* and A& of fome few ambitious and bloody Per-
' fons, and fuch others as, by their Influence, were
' And as we hope and pray that God vtfill not irri-
* pute the Gailt of it, nor of all the evil Confe-
' quences thereof unto the Land, whofe Divine Ju-
< flice never involves the Guiltlefs with the Guilty,
« fo we cannot but give due Praife to your Majefty's
' Goodnefs, who are pleafed to entertain fuch re-
< conciled and reconciling Thoughts; and with them.
< not only meet, but, as it were, prevent your Par-
' liament and People; propofmg yourfelf, in a great
4 Mealure, and inviting the Parliament to confider
* further, and advife your Majefty what may be ne-
* ccfiary to reftore the Nation to what it hath loir,
« raife up again the Banks and Fences of it, and
' make the Kingdoms happy, by the Advancement
' of Religion, the fecuring our Laws, Liberties, and
' Eftates, and the removing of all Jealou'fies and
« Animofities which may render our Peace lefs cer-
' tain and durable j wherein your Majefty gives a
' large Evidence of your great Wifdom judging
' aright; that, after fo high a Diftemper, and fuch
c an univerfal fliakingof the very Foundations, grsat
c Care muft be had to repair the Breaches, and
4 much Circumfpe6tion and Induftry ufed to provide
c Things neceffary for the ftrengthening of thole
4 Repairs, and preventing whatever may difturb and
* weaken them.
4 We (hall immediately apply ourfelves to the pre*
* paring of thefe Things ; and in a very fhort Time,
* we hope, be able to prefent them unto your Maje-
* fty : And, for the prefent, do, with all humble
' Thankfulness, acknowledge your Grace and p'a-
* vour, in afTurins; us of your Royal Concurrence
* with
266 The Parliamentary HISTORY
' with us, and faying, That we (hall not expect any
' thing from you, but what you will be as ready to
* give as we to receive. And we cannot doubt of
c your Majefty's effectual Performance, fmce your
* own Princely Judgment hath prompted unto you
* the Neceflity of doing fuch Things ; and your
* Piety and Goodnefs hath carried you to a free
' Tender of them to your faithful Parliament.
' You fpeak as a gracious King, and we will do
* what befits dutiful, loving, and loyal Subjects,
' who are yet more engaged to honour, and highly
' efteem your Majefty for your declining, as you are
* pleafed to fay, all foreign Afiiftance, and rather
* truft to your People; who> we do affure your Ma-
* jelly, will, and do, open their Arms and Hearts to
* receive you, and will fpare neither their Eftates
4 nor their Lives, when your Service fliall require it
' of them.
* And we have yet more Caufe to enlarge our
' Praifes and our Prayers to God for your Majefty, that
' you have continued unfhaken in your Faith: That
' neither theTemptation of Allurements, Perfuafions,
' and Promifes from feducingPapifts on theoneHand,
* nor the Perfecution and hardUfage from fome feduced
* and mifguided Profeflbrs of the Proteftant Reli-
* gion on the other Hand, could at all prevail up-
*• on your Majefty to make you forfake the Rock of
' Ifrae!, the God of your Fathers, the true Proteftant
' Religion, in which your Majefty hath been bred ;
c but you have flill been as a Rock yourfeif, firm to
* your Covenant with your and our God, even now
' expreffing your Zeal and Affection for the Pro-
' teftant Religion, and your Care and Study for the
* Propagation thereof. This hath been a Rejoicing
* of Heart to all the Faithful of the Land, and an
* Afiii ranee to them that God would not forfake
* you ; but after many Trials, which fhould but
' make you more precious, as Gold out of the Fire,
* reftore your Majefty unto your Patrimony and
' People with more Splendour and Dignity, and
* make you the Glory of Kings, and the Joy of
4 your
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< your Subjects ; which is, and ever (hall be, the later- regnum.
« Prayer of your Majefty's moft loyal Subjeds the ^J ^
« Commons of England afiembled in Parlament.' M^yi" '
Signed by the Order, and in the Name, of your
Majefty's Subjetfs the Commons of England af»
fembled in Parliament ,
HAR. GRIMSTON,
Wtflmiujler, May a, 7 Speaker of the Commons Houfe of
166°' * Parliament.
« Refolved, fcfr. That a Committee of this Houfe
be appointed to confider of the King's Majefty's
Letter and Declaration, and for preparing of Bills
accordingly, viz. Mr. Finch, Serjeant Maynard,
Lord Howard, Mr. Recorder of London, Mr. Good-
ricke, Col. Bowyer, Sir Walter Erie, Sir Gilbert
Gerrard, Mr. Swaile, Mr. Holies, Sir Edward
Deering, Mr. Morrice, Mr. Francis Gerrard, Lord -
General, Mr. Charlton, Mr. Peirepont, Sir Richard
Onflow, Mr. Bunckley, Sir Horatio Townfend, Col.
Maffey, Mr. Clifford, Sir JM* Holland, Lord /&r-
forJ, Sir William Waller, Sir George Booth, Lord
Falkland, Mr. Cr*iw, Sir .fo^r/ />, Mr. T^tf,
Mr. Brcdrick, Sir ZW/*y ,?vV/£, Col. £/VvA, Sir
Trevor Williams, Mr. Clapham, Sir Henry Telvertcn%
Mr. Williams, Mr. Swinfin, Mr. Annefley, Col. Afor-
%, Mr. Knigbtley, Mr. Dunch, Sir Anthony Irby,
Mr. Onjlow, Sir (William Le^vis, Col. Hurley^ Lord
Bulkley, Mr. Henry Hungerford, Mr. Stanhope, Mr.
Boderda, Sir '^^« Evelyn of Wilts, Sir y<^« Evelyn
of Sitrry, Mr. Clobery, Mr. Turner, Lord Howard,
Sir Thomas Spencer, Mr. Daivnay, and all the Gen-
tlemen of this Houfe of the Long Robe. This Com-
mittee have Power to prepare a Bill for taking away
Tenures /» Capite, and by Knights Service, and
Socage i» Capite, and alfo of the Court of Wards ;
and to confider and propound to this Houfe, how
one hundred thoufand Pounds a Year may be raifed
and fettled on his Majefty, in Compenfation for
Wardfhips and Liveries, and the Court of Wards :
And this Committee are to meet in the Inner Court
of
268 Tbe Parliamentary HISTORY
ifa, of Wards, at Three of the Clock this Afternoon;
1660. and Mr. finch is to take Care of this jBuhnefs.'
May 4. The Lords, after doing fome other Bu-
finefs of lefs Confequence, heard a Report from the
Earl of Dorfet, That the Committee had fent a
Draught of an Order, concerning the Affair of the
nine Lords, formerly impeached ; which was read
and approved of by the Houfe as follows :
* Whereas, upon Wednesday the 20th Day of
Jttlyt 1642, it was, by the Lords, then aflembled1 in
this High Court of Parliament, awarded and ad-
judged, in thefe Words following; that is to fay,
That Spencer Earl of Northampton^ William Earl
of Devon/hire, Henry Earl of Dover , Henry Earl
of Monmouth^ Charles Lord Howard of Chnrlton^
Robert Lord Rich, Charies Lord Grey of Ruthen^
Thomas Lord Coventry^ Arthur Lord Capell, Ih all
not fit or vote in the Lords Houfe, during this
prefent Parliament,- nor enjoy the Privileges of
Parliament j that they fhall Hand committed t6
the Tower during the Pleaiure of this Houfe :*
With other Matters therein contained, as by the
faid Judgment, or Award, remaining on Record,
may appear. Now, upon ierious Debate ant1 Con-
federation hao bv the Lords now r.flembled in Par-
liament, of the faid fudgment, or Award, and of
the Matters and Thirds therein contained, they do
declare, ordain, and adjudge the faid Judgment, or
Award, and every Matter therein, fhal! be repealed,
annulled, and made void, and the fame is hereby
repealed, annulled, and made void, to all Intents
and Purpofes, as if no fuch Judgment had been
therein.'
The Committee, according to Order, had now
began to prepare Dills, to be offered to the King on
h;; lieturn, for the Security of the Parliament itfelf,
and of 'their Properties who had purch?fed Lands,
&c. under Titles, depending wholly on the late
Revolutions. ArJ, firft, Mr. Finch did this Day
exhibit
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exhibit a Bill to the Houfe, declaring the Continu- inter-regnum.
ance of this prefent Parliament, which was read a l66°-
£rft and fecond Time, and committed. The faid ^"T^"""""*
Gentleman alfo brought another Bill, concerning
Lands purchafed from the Truftees of the late Par-
Jiament, which was likewife read twice, and com-
mitted.
. A Declaration ordered to be prepared, to give
Notice to the People, That there will be no Pro-
ceedings in Wejlmin/ler- Hall next Rafter-Term^ up-
on Caufes depending in any of the Courts, till the
two laft Returns of the faid Term. Agreed to by
the Lords.
The Recorder of the City of London^ Alderman
Vincent^ Alderman Robinfon, and Alderman Blud-
worth^ had Leave given them by the Houfe to go to
the King, with a Letter from the City, in Anfwer
to another the City received from his Majefty; which
Letter was as follows :
May it pleafe your Moft Excellent
* "V^OUR Majefty's moftleyaj, humble, and af-The City of
feaionate Subjects, the Mayor, Aldermen, Lww'c«'sAnfwef
c j /~« c i_- /"•• c r i i • to the King's
* and Commons of this your City of London, being Letter.
* this Day afTembled in Common Council, received
* your Majefty 's gracious Letter and Declaration of
'• the -&th of April laft, by the Hands of the Rt. Hon.
' the Lord Vifcount Mor daunt and Sir John Gren-
* ville ; in which they find that God hath been
' pleafed at laft to give a bountiful Return to their
' conftant Prayers, patient Hopes, and loyal Endea-
' vours, by yo.ur Majefty's Owning and Acceptance
' thereof, and by inclining your Princely Heart to
* defcend fo far, not only to impart to them your
' Majefty's benign Declaration of Grace extended
* to your Majefty's Subjects in general, but alfo to
' convey it to them under a particular Afiurance of
' ipecial Love, and Tendernefs to this City, to which
' they prefume not to intitle themfelves on any other
4 Account, than upon that of your Majefty's gracious
' Inclinations ; for they confefs that all thofe Mani-
' feftations of their AiFedlions, for which your Ma-
r. . - jefty
270 'The Parliamentary HISTORY
Inter-regnum. ' jefty is pleafed to put thofe fignal Marks of Favour
1660. < upon this City, were but a partial Payment of that
*— — v-*' * Duty which they owe to your Majefty's Right as
M*y* ' Subjects, and Virtues as Chriftians: And therefore,
* as they defire to blefs God for inclining the Hearts
< of both Houfes of Parliament this Day to exprefs
« their joyful Senfe of, and their humble and hearty
6 Thanks for, your Majefty's gracious Offers, and
* to profefs their Loyalty and Duty to your Majefty,
« fo they defire that their intire and unanimous Con-
< currence therein may, in its Place, find your gra-
« cious Acceptance ; which they hope your Majefty
« will give them Leave, in all Humility, to claim,
« when your Majefty (hall have feen their inclofed
< Declaration and Vindication, which their Inno-
* cence and Affections warranted them to publifh to
' the World, before they received the Honour and
' Encouragement of your Majefty's Letter. And
« they cannot omit to acquaint your Majefty, that
' the moft eminent and clear Characters of your
* Princely Goodnefs, exprefted in this your Letter
* and Declaration, hath, as by a Miracle, at once
* bound them all up in one common Band of Loy-
' alty to your Majefty, and Affection among them-
* felves, and given them more than pregnant Hopes,
' that God will fuddenly eftablifti your Majefty in an
* honourable and peaceful Government of thefe your
* Kingdoms, and fix you among them as the Center,
* in which all the oppofite Lines of the diftra£ted In-
' terefts of this Nation will meet and acquiefce, to
* the Glory of God, and the perpetual Settlement,
* Peace, and Welfare of your Subjects. They have
* intrufted their Fellow-Members, Thomas Adams t
' Abraham Reynardfon, Richard Brown, William
* Thompfon, John Frederick, John Robinfon^ Anthony
6 Bateman, and William Wale, Aldermen ; William
' Wild) Efq; Recorder; John Langham, Sir James
* Bunce^ Bart. Sir Nicholas Crifp, Knt. Theophilvg
' Biddulpb) William Bateman, Thomas Chamberlain^
* William Vincent, Richard Ford, Laurence Brom-
6 field, and John Lewes, Efquires, to preferft to your
* Majefty's Royal Hand this their humble and hearty
Pro-
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* Profeffion of Duty and Affection, and with it a Inter-regnom*
* fmall Earneft of the Reality thereof; which tho' l66o>
* it be extremely d if proportionable to your Royal U"TT^~^
* Dignity, and the Mealure of their Zeal to your
* Service, yet they beg moft inftantly that it may
* find your gracious Acceptance, as coming from
* that City which have been the greateft Sharers in
* the many and heavy Preflures and LoiTes that have
' befallen your Subjects during the Want of your
* Royal Protection : And afluring your Majefty of
' their continued Prayers to God for your Majefty's
* fpeedy and fafe Return into thefe your panting
' Dominions, that your Majefty may enjoy your un-
4 doubted legal Sovereignty, and we your Subjects,
* the long'd-for Influence thereof, by your maintain-
' ing them in the Exercife of the Proteftant Religion,
c according to the Scriptures, and the Example of
* the beft Reformed Churches, and Enjoyment of
* our Civil Liberties and Properties, according to
* the Antient Fundamental Laws of this Nation, and
' thofe other Immunities and Favours exprefled in
' your Majefty's Letter and Declaration, we do moft
' humbly take Leave4 and have hereunto fet the Seal
' of this your Majefty's Royal Chamber, the City
* of London, the i&ofMay, 1660,'
May 5. The Commons having pafled the Bill
this Morning, for continuing the prefent Parlia-
ment, fent it up to the Lords with this Title, An
Aft for removing and preventing all Questions and
DijputeS) concerning the Affembling and Sitting of
this prejent Parliament. Which Bill the Lords read
twice, and committed it to a Committee of the
whole Houfe ; and accordingly the Houfe adjourned
itfelf into a Committee, and, when renamed, it was
ordered, That the Matter of this Bill be referred to
the Confideration of all the Judges and Afliftants
of this Houfe, who were to report their Opinions
on the Bill to the Houfe, on Monday Morning next,
the yth of AJay.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee
for Privileges, to confider how the Peers of this
King-
272 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Interregnum. Kingdom may be affeffed by themfelves, for the
1660. finding of Horfe and Arms, according to their an-
V*-~\~'-~J tjent Privileges, and not to he afleffed by the Com-
tlay' miflioners of the Militia, in the feveral Counties.
The Commons, almoft this whole Day, were
employed in regulating Elections of their Members?
on double Returns, &c. after which the Houfe
came to a Refolution, That, in all Cafes where the
Great Seal of England was to be ufed, all Proceed-
ings fhould go in the King's Name j and referred
it to a Committee to confider from what Time all
Proceedings foould fo do, and what Seal fhould be
for the prefent ufed.
Mr. Annejley^ from the Council of State, informed
the Houfe, That there were many Diftemperatures
in feveral Parts of the Kingdom j and that unquiet
Spirits might make an Advantage to foment new
Troubles and Diftraclions, by Pretence and Colour
that the Sheriffs, and other public Minifters of Ju-
ftice, are not impowered, in this prefent Juncture
of Affairs, with fufficient Authority, to difyenfe the
ordinary Acls of Juftice, belonging to their refpec-
tive Places, for preferving of the public Peace. The
Council of State did delire, That a Declaration
Jhould be fet forth, for requiring all Officers of Ju-
ftice to attend their Places, and the Duties thereof,
as by Cominiflion they are enjoyned ; that fo the
public Peace may be fecured> and the Juftice of the
Nation carried on -without any Interruption. The
Commons appointed a Committee to draw up a
Declaration accordingly, which was done and agreed
to by the Lords,- and was as follows :••
A Declaration of r | ^H E Lords and Commons aflembled inPar-
ke^TiT'th* 10r ' •*• l'arnent» having received feveral Informa-
Peace, £?c. * tlons tnat there hath been divers Tumults, Riots,
* Outrages, and-Mifdemeanors, lately committed in
< fundry Parts of this Realm, by unquiet and dif-
4 contented Spirits, to the Difturbance of the public
* Peace, and fomenting of new Troubles, do here-'
4 by order and declare, That all Sheriffs, Juftices of
t the Peace, Mayors, Conftables, and other Mini-
fters
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* fters of public Juftice, that were in Office the 25th
( of April* 1660, fliall be continued in their refpec-? l66°-
' tive Offices, and (hall exercife the fame in the
« King's Majefty's Name and Style, and (hall ufe
* their beft Endeavours to fupprefs and prevent alj
< Riots, Tumults, unlawful Afiemblies and Mifde-
« meanors whatfoever, againft the Laws and Peace
* of the Realm ; and all treafonable and feditious
* Words, Reports, and Rumours againft his Maje-
* fty's Royal Perfon and Authority, and proceed
e againft all Offenders therein according to Law ancj
* Juftice : And all Military Officers and Soldiers,
* and all others, are to be aiding and afTifting tQ
* them therein.'
The Houfe proceeded to the Election of twclv§
of their Members, who were to go to the King,
with their Letter, which was done by Ballot in the
fame Manner they ufed to elect their Council of
State. The Number of the Members then in the
Houfe were 408, of which four were appointed for
Tellers, who received a Paper from each Member
in a Glafs, with twelve Names wrote in it j all
which were delivered to the Committee, who were
lo examine and report the greateft Number of Voices
fit their Meeting on Monday next,
May 7. The Lord Hoiuard brought in the Num-
bers, when it appeared that Sir George Booth, Lord,
Falkland, Mr. Holies, Sir John Holland, Sir Anthony
Ajhley Cooper, Lord Bruce, Sir Horatio Town/hend,
Lord Herbert, Lord Cajileton, Lord Fairfax, Sir:
Henry Cbolmley, and Lord Mandeville, were duly
cledted by a Majority, to carry the Anfwer to the
King's Letter from the Houfe, who were all fepa-
rately put to the Vote, and approved on by them.
This Day both Houfes agreed, that the King
fhould be proclaimed on the next; but, previous
to this Ceremony, a Committee of four Lords and
eight of the Commons were agreed on to meet tQ
Cpjifider of the Manner, Time, and other Circum-
VOL. XXII. S ilancesj
274 *H>e Parliamentary HISTORY
ftances, to be obferved on that Occafion. The
1660. Report of this to be made the fit ft Thing the next
"7^~ ~~* Morning.
Another Committee had been appointed to dnw
up fonie Orders, relating to Minifters praying for the
Kin"-, &c. and this Day Mr. Finch reported two
Votes, which, upon the Queition, were agreed to,
as followeth :
' Refolved, That all and every the Minifters
throughout the Kingdoms of England and Ireland^
the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick up-
on Tweed, do, and are heieby required and enjoined,
in their public Prayers, to pray for the King's Moft
Excellent Majefty, by the Name of our Sovereign
Lord Charles, by the Grace of God, of England,
Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of
the Faith, &c. and for the Moft Illuftrious Prince
James, Duke of York, and the reft of the Royal
Progeny.'
4 Refolved, That the Minifters who are appointed
to officiate before this Houfe upon Thurfday next,
being the Day appointed for a public Thanlcfgiving,
and all other Minifters within the Cities of London
and Weftminfter, and the late Lines of Communica-
tion, who in their feveral Churches and Chapels are
to carry on the Duties of that Day ; and alfo all
other Minifters who are, on that Day Fortnight, to
perform the like Duty throughout the Kingdom of
England^ the Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick upon Tweed, {hall be, and are hereby en-
joined, to return Thanks to Almighty God, for his
Majefty's feveral gracious Letters to both Houfes of
Parliament, and to the Commanders in Chief of the
Forces both Sy Land and Sea, and to the Lord
Mayor and Common Council of the City of Lon-
don, tr-aethcr with the Declarations inclofed, and
the juft and honourable Conceifions therein con-
tained ; and for the hearty, loyal, and dutiful Con-
junction of the Lords and Commons now aflembled
in Parliament, and the univerfal Concurrence of all
the Commanders and Forces both by Land and Sea,
tt
Of E N G L A N D. 275
to receive his Majefty into his Dominions and Go- Jnter-regnujn.
vernment, according to their bounden Duty and the *66°t
Laws of the Land ; and that the Minifters upon ^^7^
Thurfday Fortnight be enjoined to read his Maje-
fty's Letters and Declarations to both Houfes, in
their feveral Churches and Chapels at the fame
Time.
Thefe Votes being communicated to the Lords,
were agreed to by them.
May 8. This Day a Form of a Proclamation,
agreed on by a Committee of Lords and Commons,
was read and approved of by both Houfes, and was
as followeth :
< A Lthough it can no way be doubted but that Fo"" of a Pro*
* JTX. his Majefty's Right and Title to this Crown g^Jji**
' and Kingdoms is, and was every way, compleated by both Houfes,
c by the Death of his moft Royal Father, of glorious
' Memory, without the Ceremony or Solemnity of
c a Proclamation ; yet, fmce Proclamations in fuch
c Cafes have been always ufed, to the End that all
c good Subjects might, upon this Occafion, te- •
* ftiry their Duty and Refpecl: ; and ilnce the armed
* Violence and other the Calamities of many Years
* laft paft, have hitherto deprived us of any fuch
* Opportunity, wherein we might exprefs our Loy-
' alty and Allegiance to his Majefty : We, there-
* fore, the Lords and Commons now aflembled in
* Parliament, together v/ith the Lord Mayor, Al-
* dermen, and Commons of the City of London^ and
' other Freemen of this Kingdom, now prefent, do,
' according to our Duty and Allegiance, heartily,
* joyfully, and unanimoufly, acknowledge and pro-
* claim, That, immediately upon the Deceafe of
* our late Sovereign Lord King Charles^ the Impe-
' rial Crown of the Realm of England^ and of all
' the Kingdoms, Dominions, and Rights belonging
* to the fame, did, by inherent Birth-right, and law-
4 ful and undoubted Succeflion, defcend and come to
' his Moft Excellent Majefty Charles the Second, as
* being lineally, juftly, and lawfully, next Heir of
S 2 «tbf«
An. 12. Car.-II.
1660.
May.
Thi Kino
claimed.
276 The Parliamentary HISTORY
the Blood-Royal of this Realm ; and that, by the
Goodnefs and Providence of Almighty God, he is
of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, the moft
potent, mighty, and undoubted King; and there-
unto we do moft humbly and faithfully fubmit and
oblige ourfelves, our Heirs, and Pofterities for
ever*' Dated the Stb Day of May, 1660.
4 Ordered, That a Copy of this Proclamation, to
be figned by the Speakers of both Houfes, be forth-
xvith fent to the Lord Mayor of the City of London ;
and that the Members of the Huufe of Commons,
who ferve for the feveral Counties, Cities, and Bo-
roughs, in England, ti^ales, and the Town of Ber-
wick upon Tvuc>.d, do take Care, forthwith, to fend
the SheiifFs, Mayors, Bailiffs, and other Head Offi-
cers of thefe Counties, &c. for which they ferved,
the Proclamation for proclaiming the King's Ma-
iefty, that it might be done accordingly. At the
fame Time was lent down a Declaration, touching
Acts which were preparing to be paffed, to be read
along with the Proclamation.'
It WHS then ordered, ' That the Lords Commif-
fioners of the Great Seal, in their Gowns, with the
Purfe and Mace before them ; the Lord Prefident
of the Council of State, with his Mace, fhould at-
tend the I'-Voclsmuaon, next after the Speaker of the
Iloufc of Common?.' And both Houfes, with their
Speakers, went in their Coaches, in Proceffion, at
the Solemnity;
with gre.LL Porn}
Demonflrations of Joy, firft at Whitehall^ then at
Temple-Bar, where they met the Lord Mayor,
SneriiTs, Aldermen, Common Council, and other
Officers. &c. of the City ; as alfo at the Fleet^ Con-
duit in Ci}eapjtde, and the Royal Exchange, The fame
Proclamation was foon after made over all the three
Kingdoms.
which was performed this Day,
and Ceremony, and all imaginable
May 9. Both Houfes had Letters from Admiral
Montagu at Sea, intimating, That he had received
hi*
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his Majefty's Declaration, and a Letter directed tOAn.i2.Car.il.
General Monks and himfelf, to be communicated to J66o«
the Fleet, which he had done accordingly : That v v^~— J
all the Commanders, Officers, and Seamen, were May'
defirous that they fhould exprefs to his Majefty
their great Joyfulnefs of Heart for the Declara-
tion, and Favours to them, in the faid Letter; as
alfo their Loyalty and Duty to him. There-
fore they humbly intreated the Houfes to know
their Pleafure, whether fuch an Anfwer fhould be
returned to his Majefty or not. Both the Speakers
\vere ordered to write to the Admirals, to give them
Thanks for their Refpe&s {hewn to them, and gave
them Leave to fend fuch an Anfwer, either jointly
or feverally, as they fliould think fit.
Mr. Prynn-e^ from the Houfe of Commons,
^brought up feveral Votes, which they had pafied,
and defired their Lordfhips Coucurrence to them,
viz. That the King's Majefty be defired to make a
fpeedy Return to his Parliament, and to the Exer-
cife of his Kingly Office. — Votes enjoining al! Mi-
nifters to pray for the King. — A Bill, intituled, An
Aft for removing and preventing all Qutjiions find
Difputcs concerning the AJJembling and Sitting of this
prejent Parliament. — That the Arms of the Com-
monwealth, wherever they are ftanding, be forth-
with taken down, and that the King's Arms be fet
up in their Stead : The Commons having lead the
Way, by altering the Arms over their Speaker's
Chair, in the fame Manner. All which Particulais-
the Lords ratified and confirmed.
The Lords appointed a Committee to confider
and take Information where any of the Kind's
Goods, Jewels, or Pictures, were placed ; and to
advife of fome Courfe how the fame might be re-
ftored to his Majefty. Upon Information to the
Houfe, That Yefterday a Breach of Privilege was
made, by the Prefidcnt of the Council of State, in
going before the Peers with his Mace, at the Pro-
claiming of the King, it was ordered to be referred
8 to
278 'The Parliamentary MISTORV
i i?. Car. II. to the Committee of Privileges, who were to meet
1660. tnat Afternoon upon it. But this Affair, we fup-
""7V~1"'<"^ pofe, was accommodated privately, for we find no
a'V* more in the Journals about it.
The Houfe of Commons had refolved, That all
Proceedings fhould go in the King's Name, from
the firft of May inclufive ; and that in all Cafes
where the Great Seal fhall be neceflary to be ufedj
all Proceedings do pafs accordingly. Alfo, that for?
carrying on and expediting the Juftice of the King-
dom, the Great Seal, now remaining in the Cufto-
cly of the Earl of Manche/ter, and the reft of the
Commiffioners, be ufed till further Orders. In like
Manner all the Seals belonging to any other Courts
fhould be fo ufed 5 and all Procefs and Proceedings
there run in the Kind's Name. The Lords agreed
to the laft Part of this Vote ; but, as to the Seals,
they ordered it to be laid afide.
The Lords appointed a Committee to confidef
how the King was to be received on his Return ;
and when to be fent for, and by whom. Both
Houfes alfo ordered, That Admiral Montagu do
obferve fuch Commands as the King's Majefty fhall
pleafe to give him, for the Difpofal of the Fleet, or
any Part thereof, in order to his Return. A Com-
mittee of twelve Lords and twenty four Common-
ers was appointed to meet and prepare Inftru&ions
for thofe who were to go with the Letters from both
Houfes to his Majefty, and they were ordered to fet
forward on Friday the nth Inftant.
May io. This being the Day appointed for the
Thr.nfgiving, both Houfes attended their Devotions
in the Forenoon ; but, after Noon, they both met
again to do Bufinefs. The Commons fent up a
Copy of the Inftructions for the Commiflioners who
were to go to the King; which being read, fome
Alterations were made in them, concerning the
Arms of the Commonwealth, and then they were
agreed to by the Commons. They were in thefe
Words:
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INSTRUCTIONS for Auberry Earl of Oxford, An. 12. Car. II.
Charles Earl of Warwick, Lionel Earl of Mid- l66°-
<ilefex, Leicefter Vifcount Hereford, George Lord **~~Tf~~~*
Berkeley, Robert Lord Brooke, Lord Herbert,
Lord Mandeville, Lord Bruce, Lord Caftleton,
Lord Falkland, Lord Fairfax, Denzil Holies, Efq\
Sir Horatio Townfhend, Sir John Holland, Sir
Anthony Afhley Cooper, Sir George Booth, and
Sir Henry Cholmley.
'OU are to begin your Journey towards
Y
__ Majefty on Friday next, and make a fpeedytheCommiffion-
Repair to fuch Place where his Majefty (hall be, and Houfes that were
both
' humbly to prefent the Letters wherewith you are to go to the
' refpeclively intrufted by both Houfes of Parliament. K
' You are to acquaint his Majefty with what great
' Joy and Acclamation he was proclaimed in and
* about the Cities of London and Wejlminfter, upon
« the 8th Day of May Inftant, and prefent the Pro-
' clamation itfelf unto his Majefty; and to acquaint
* him with the Orders of both Houfes to have the
' fame proclaimed throughout the Kingdoms of
4 England and Ireland, Dominion of Wales, and the
' Town of Berwick upon Tweed. And that both
c Houfes have ordered that all and every the Mini-
* fters throughout the Kingdoms of England and
' Ireland be injoined, in their public Prayers, to pray
* for his Aloft Excellent Majefty, and for the Molt
* Illuftrious Prince, James Duke of York, and the reft
* of the Royal Progeny. And alfo that they have
c ordered that the aflumed Arms of the late pre-
* tended Commonwealth, wherever they are ftand-
* ing, be taken down ; and. that his Majefty's Arms
* be fet up inftead thereof. And you are to corn-
* municate to his Majefty the Resolutions of both
' Koufes relating to this lnftru£tion.
4 You are to acquaint his Majefty with the earneft
* Defire of both Houfes, that his Majefty will be
* pleafed to make a fpeedy Return to his Pavlia-
* ment, and to the Exercife of his Kingly Office :
' And that, in order thereunto, both Houfes have
' given Directions to General Montagu, one of the
* Generals at Sea, and other Officers of the Fleet,
The Parliamentary HISTOKV
to obferve fuch Commands as his Majefty flialt
pleafe to give him or them for Difpofal of the Fleet,
in order to his Majefty 's Return. And you are"
to communicate to his Majefty the Refolutions of*
both Houfes relating to this Inftruftion.
4 That the Committee from both Houfes do be-
feech his Majefty that they may know where he
propofeth to take Shipping, and to land at his
coming over, that Preparation may be made for
his Reception; and which of his Majefty's Houfes
he intendeth to make ufe of at his firft coming to
London; and whether he will come ail the Way by
Land after he comes on Shore, or whether he will
pleafe to come by Water from Grave fend to Lon-
don ; and that his Majefty will declare in what
Manner he is pleafed to be received*'
The Commons had fent to defire a Conference
\vith the Lords, on the Matter of laying afide their
Vote, about ufmg the Great Seal •> which being
held, the Earl of Mancbefler made a Report of it to
this Effect :
' Th'at Mr. Annejley, who managed the Confe-
J-ence, faid, there were many Inconveniences the
Kingdom fufFered for want of the Ufe of the Great
Seal ; and, to fortify this, he gave many Reafons to
move their Lordfhips Concurrence herein.
1. * There was fo great an Obftru<5tion in all the
Courts of Juftice for want thereof, that all Writs,
Fines, and AiTurances, were flopped, fo as there
could be none now, whereby the Subject fufFered
much ; that three Terms have been loft already, and
there is Danger of having no Affizes j fo there will
be Lofs of a whole Year's Juftice.
2. ' There is an Obftru&ion in the Revenue.—
Orders are made for iffuing out of Monies which are
not obeyed : No Provifion can be made for tha
King's Reception : Bufinefs at the Committee for
the Army is flackened, and they fear that if Mo-
hies cannot be brought in for paying the Army, the
Soldiers will be neceflltated to lie upon free Quar-
tfer { The Committee for the Navy and Admiralty
Of ENGLAND. 281
tannot fet out the Fleet for want of the Great Seal : An. n. Car. II,
The Officers are at a Stand, the Excife and Cuftoms l66o«
are at a Stand, becaule the Officers are tender to
act without Ordeis under the Great Seal, whereby
great LofTes come to the Kingdom : For whereas
the Excife and Cuilom came lately to 1 0,000 /. per
Week, now they are not above 5000 /. $er Week,
by reafon of this Obftrudlion.
' He further laid, In former Times Ufe was made
of other Great Seals upon Occufion ; as, in King
James's Time, upon the Death of Queen Elizabeth;
*Fhat the Houfe of Commons could not lend forth
XVrits, to fill up their Houfe with Members, for
want of the Ufe of the Great Seal ; and they did not
know what Inconveniences may be, if their Lord*
ihips do not fpeedily concur with the Houfe of
Commons, that there may be a prefent Ufe of the
Great Seal.' But we are deficient whether it was
agreed to or not.
The Commons, --on their meeting this Day, firil
ordered the Thanks of the Houfe to be returned to
Mr. Price, for his great Pains-taking in his Thankf-
giving Sermon, preached in the Forenoon before the
Houfe ; and that he be defired to print his Sermon.
They alfo voted the Sum of 5000 /. for the
Duke of Ttork^ and the fame Sum to the Duke of
Gloucejler, for their prefent Supply and Accommo-
dation ; but afterwards, that of the Duke of Tork's
Was made io,OOO/.- Ordered, * That the Scots
Colours, taken at Dunbar and Worccfter, and now
hanging up in WeftminJhr-ilaU, be forthwith taken
down ; the Serjeant at Arms to lee it done accord-
ingly: Ordered, alfo, * That While ball and \\\zMews
be cleared of all Soldiers, Lodgers, &c. except thofc
who are attendant on the Council of State ; and that
all the Lodgings (hould be broke open belonging to
thofe who were gone out of Town, and had taken
the Keys with them.'
Mr. Anncjley reports, from the Committee ap-
pointed to confider of the Manner of the King's
Return and Reception, and of Preparations requifite
to
282 The Parliamentary HISTORY
Atvta. Car. II. to thofe Ends, three Lifts of Things necelTary to be
1660. provided for his Majefty's Service, viz. *
May. j^ Things necejfary to be provided for his Majejlfs
Service^ and his Brothers, the Dukes of York, and
Gloucefter.
Neceflaries to fre £ A rich Bed, to be of Velvet, either embroidered
provided for the^,^ Q^ or iace(^ and lined with Cloth of Silver
or Sattin, as (hall be beft approved of; with a high
Chair of State, two high Stools, one Foot-ftool, and
two Cufhions, all fuitable to the Bed.
' Two great Quilts or Mattrefles of Sattin, fuit-
able to the Lining of the Bed.
4 Two thick Fuftian Quilts, to lie under the Sat-
tin Quilts ; one Down Bolfler, one Pair of Fuftian
Blankets, and one Pair of Spanijh Blankets.
* One Clofe-ftool fuitable to the Bed.
* Six Pair of Holland Sheets, having twenty-four
Ells of Holland in a Pair, at ten Shillings, eleven
Shillings, or twelve Shillings the Ell.
1 Two Beds- more for the King's Majefty, to be
removing Beds, either of Scarlet Cloth or of Velvet,
all lined with Sattin ; and all Neceffaries to each
Bed as to the former Bed, except Sheets.
' And for the prefent, two Beds, of the like
Goodneft, to be made for the Duke of York and the
Duke otGloncefter, with all Particulars as the others,
and fix Pair of Sheets for each of the Duke's Beds.
4 For the prelent twenty large Pallet Beds, with
Bolfters, twenty large Tapeftry Counterpains,
twenty Pair of good large Blankets, forty Pair of
good Holland Sheets, of eighteen Ells in each Pair,
being of Holland of three Shillings and Sixpence per
Ell for thofe Beds.
' Twenty good double yellow Ground Carpets,
of Turkey making, and fix Hides, fix Cart Canvaffes.
* There muft be provided alfo Tenter-hooks,
Hammers, Tacks, and fuch like Neceffaries for the
Wardrobe.
* For Table Linen for his Majevty, twelve Da-
rn afk Table-Cloths for his Majefty's own Table, as
many
a From the Journals ef the Commons, Vol. VJII. p. 21.
O/ E N G L A N D. 283
many Towels, and fix Napkins for every Table- An. n. Car. If.
Cloth. The like for each Duke, if they eat afunder i l66°-
but if they eat together, half the Proportion. **~M~*~J
* For other Diets for the great Lords, tho' Table
Linen was allowed them, yet they ufed their own
Linen.
' Inferior Diets had Holland or Flaxen Table-
Cloths, but no Napkins.
' A rich Coach alfo, the Infide Crimfon Velvet,
richly laced and fringed ; Liveries for two Coach-
men and two Poftiflions fuitable. The Footmen
ihould have Liveries and Coats fuitable.
II. A Particular of what is at prefect necej/ary to be
provided for his Majefty's Service, humbly offered tl
the Confederation of this Honourable Board.
' Two Coaches, the one for travelling, the other
to be a rich one.
Two Sets of Coach Horfes.
Liveries for two Coachmen, two Poftillions, fix
Grooms, and ten Footmen.
Two rich Saddles for the great Horfe.
Six Pad -Saddles.
Four Sumpter- Horfes and Cloaths to them.
Two Horfes for the great Saddle.
Provifions of all Sorts to be laid into the Mews
againft his Majefty's coming.
III. A Memorial of Flags., &c. for the Fleet.
f A Standard, — — ~»
A Jack, — — — Uillc
jAnEnfign, — -. f 5Uk'
\r n J A Suit of Pendants, — — J
X«feh.< Wjfift C!otheS) Scarlet,
| A rich Barge, of the fame Dimenfion as
this we have, of thirty-three Feet, with
(^ a Standard.
Vice-Admiral. f Flags, — — }
| Jacks, — — S-Silk.
Rear- Admiral.^ Enfi^ns, — — 3
J A Suit of good Kerfey Waift
I Clothes.
'In
284 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. if. Car. ii. * In moft of the Frigates there will need the King's
6 Arms, either carved or in painted Cloth.
* Carvers, Painters, and a Glazier, for every Flag
Ship, will be neceflary.
4 The General's Cabbin to be new glazed with
fquare Glafs.
< Wardrobe Men and Upholfterers to be brought
down.
4 Mr. KennerJJey will be very ufeful to confer
with about what is neceflary herein.
4 Beale's Galley, and a Standard.
4 Beale and Simpfan^ and a choice Noife of Trum-
pets.
4 Singleton's Muflc.
4 Refolved, That this Houfe doth agree with the
Committee, that the Particulars, contained in the
three Lifts now prefented, be forthwith provided
and furnifhed for the Service and Accommodation
of his Majefty.
4 Ordered, That it be referred to the Council of
State, to caufe the fame to be provided and furnifhed
accordingly; and that they are impowered to charge
any Part of the public Revenue, for raifing of Mo-
nies to pay for the fame.'
A Declaration was drawn up, for directing the
Commiffioners of the Admiralty and Navy of the
Cuftoms and the Excife, the Committee for the
Army, and all other Officers relating to the Reve-
nue, Army, and Navy, who were in Office on the
25th of Jpril, 1660, to proceed forthwith in the
Execution of their refpe6tive Commiffions, Offices,
and Employments ; and fliall exercife the fame in the
King's Majefty 's Name and Stile, according to their
feveral Powers, Authorities, andlnftructions, to them
given, on the 25th Day of y//>r/7aforefaid, till further
Orders. Agreed to by both Houfes, and ordered to
be printed and publifhed.
May 12. This Day a Petition was prefented to
the Houfe of Lords, and read, and was as fol-
loweth :
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To the LORDS in Parliament ajfcmbled. An. 12. Car. II.
The PETITION of Auberry de Vere Earl o/Oxford' l66°'
Shewing, May.
' rr* H AT the Office and Place of High Cham- Petition of the
« J. berlain of England, with all the Rights and l"\
' Privileges thereunto appertaining, hath, ever fince
< the Beginning of the Reign of King Henry the
* Second, belonged unto your Petitioner's Anceftors,
' and is the undoubted Right and Inheritance of your
* Petitioner ; and hath, thro' many Ages and De-
* fcents, been enjoyed by his Progenitors untill that,
c in the firft Year of the Rein of the late King
* Charles of Blefled Memory, Robert
* of Erfbye^ afterwards Earl of Lindfay, did, with-
< out any Right or Title, ufurp the fame, and in-
' trude himfelf therein, getting into his Hands divers
' antient Evidences concerning the fame. And
* Montagu Earl of Lindfay, his Son, doth now claim
* the faid Office, as belonging to him and his Heirs,
' Humbly prayeth, That you would be pleafed
' to fufpend the faid Montagu Earl of Lindfay'sE,x.e-
' cution of the faid Office untill your Petitioner's
' Right and Title may be heard and determined :
* And that the faid Montagu Earl of Lindfay^ may
' fhew what Right and Title he hath to the faid
' Office and Chamberlainfliip, and make Anfwer
« unto the Premifes. OXFORD.
This Petition was agreed to by both Houfes.
Upon the humble Addrefs of the Commiffioners
employed from the Kingdom of Ireland, mewing,
That, in regard his Majefty's Letters and Declara-
tions to both Houfes of Parliament do not at all
mention Ireland^ or any the Concernments of that
Kingdom ; which, by reafon of the fad Confequence
of the late bloody Rebellion there, hath been cart
into great Diforder and Confufion, and fo doth ne-
ceflarily require fpeedy and healing Provifions and
Remedies; and therefore defiring the Affiftance and
Concurrence of the Houfes of Parliament to his Ma-
jefty fur the calling and holding a Parliament there
as
286 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. is. Car.II.as formerly, for Remedy of the unfettled Condition
1660. Of thjs Kingdom : It is ordered by the Lords
**~~M~~~* and Commons in Parliament aflembled, ' That
*y< it be offered and prefented, and it is hereby offered
and prefented, as the Advice and Defire of the Par-
liament, That his Majefty may be gracioufly plea-
fed, upon the Repair of Commifftoners to him from
that Kingdom, with all convenient Speed, to call
a Parliament in Ireland to confift of Proteftant Peers
and Commons, as being the moft vifible Means for
the regulating and fettling of the refpe&ive Interefts
in that unfettled Kingdom.'
The Houfe of Commons proceeded in their
70,000 /. a Month Afleflment Bill, and read over
the Commiffioners Names, and then ordered it to be
engroffed. — Information being given to the Houfe,
that there was an Offer made of discovering 200,000 /.
due to, and concealed from, the Government, they
immediately appointed a Committee to examine in-
to the faid Diicovery.
An Act of General Pardon, Indemnity, and Ob-
livion, was this Day read a fecond Time in that
Houfe ; and ibme Votes in the Journal of Dec. 12,
1650, concerning the Trial of the late King,
were alfo read, as alfo a Record, intituled, A Jour-
nal of the Proceedings of the High Court of Juflice^
treRed by an Afi of the Commons of England, for the
trying and judging of Charles Stuart, "king of Eng-
land, was read. After which, divers Members of
the Houfe, then prefent, who were named Commif-
fioners in the faid Att, flood up in their Places, and
did feverally exprefs how far they were concerned
in the faid Proceedings, and their Senfe thereupon.
One Mr. Lenthall^ a Member of the Houfe, hap-
pening to fpcak in the Debate on the Bill of Indem-
nity, (aid, He that drew bis Sword apahiji the King9
committed as high an Offence as he that cut off the
Kings Head. Exception was taken ?t chefe Words,
and Mr. Lenthall was ordered to the Bar ; when the
Speaker, by Order of the Houfe, gave him the fol«
lowing Reprimand :
« Mr.
Of ENGLAND. 287
c Mr. Lenthall, The Houfe hath taken very great An. 12. Car. II.
* Offence at fome Words you have let fall, upon l66°-
' Debate of this Bufmefs, of the Bill of Indemnity j ' — "IA~*~*
* which, in the Judgment of this Houfe, hath as
' high a Reflection on the Juftice and Proceedings A fevere Repri-
' of the Lords and Commons, in the laft Parlia mand from the
« mem, in their Adings before 1648,' as could be8 a
* expreffed. They apprehend there is much of
' Poiibn in the Words, and that they were fpoken
* out of Defign to fet this Houfe on Fire; they tend-
' ing to render them that drew the Sword, to bring
' Delinquents to condign Punifhment, and to vindi-
' cate their juft Liberties, into Balance with them
* that cut off the King's Head ; of which Adi they
' exprefs their Abhorrence and Deteftation, appeal-
* ing to God, and their Confcience bearing them
' Witnefs, that they had no Thoughts againft his
' Perfon, much lefs againft his Life. Therefore I
* am commanded to let you know, That had theie
' Words fallen out at any other Time but in this
' Parliament, or at any Time in this Parliament but
« when they had Coniiderations of Mercy, Pardon,
* and Indemnity, you might have expected a fharper
* and feverer Sentence than I am now to pronounce:
* But the Difpofition of his Majefty is to Mercy ;
* he hath invited his People to accept it, and it is
' the Difpofition of the Body of this Houfe to be
' Healers of Breaches, and to hold forth Mercy to
' Men of all Conditions, fo far as may ftand with
* Juftice, and the Juftification of themfelves before
' God and Man. 1 am therefore commanded to let
' you know, that Tha'i: being their Difpofition, and
* the prefent Subject of this Day's Debate being
' Mercy, you (hall therefore tafte of Mercy j yet I
' am to give you a {harp Reprehenfion j and I do as
' ftiarply and feverely as I can (for fo I am com-
' manded) reprehend you for it.' b
May 14. However, the Houfe of Commons be-
gan at this Time to queftion the Regicides, and an
Order was made this Day, That all thofe Perfon?,
4 \vli»
* From t^e Cammvnt Journals, Vol. VIII. p. 34..
283 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12. Car. II. who fat in Judgment upon the late King's Majefty,
1660. when the Sentence was pronounced for his Condem-
^^"M^**** nation, fliould be forthwith fecured : Alfo that Mr.
John Cooke,AndrewBrougbton, JohnPbelpes, and Ed~
ivard Dendy; thofe two Perfons who were employ-
ed for the Execution of his late Majefty, and one
Matthew i who boafted that he was an Inftrument in
the faid Execution, and had a Reward of 300 /. for
it : Likewife Cornet Joice, who feized upon the
Perfon of his late Majefty at Holmby, fhould be all
fecured.
A Lift of the Names of thofe who fat in Judg-
ment on the late King, was ordered to be delivered
to the Serjeant at Arms attending this Houfe ; and
all Officers, both Civil and Military, were required
to be Affiftants to the Serjeant, or his Deputies, in
fecuring thole Perfons, or fuch others as are named
above. The Houfe being informed that Mr. John
Cooke was in Cuftody in Ireland, they ordered him.
to be fent over hither with all Speed.
4 Refolved, on theQueftion, That the Number of
feven, of thofe who fat in Judgment, when Sentence
xvas given upon the late King, (hall be excepted, for
Life and Eftate, out of the Act for General Pardon
and Oblivion,'
The Lords fent a Meffage to the Commons,
That they had appointed a Committee of fixteen, to
meet that Afternoon, to confer about the Manner of
the King's Reception, and dehred a proportionable
Number of the other Houfe would meet them at the
fame Time. On which the Commons named the
following Gentlemen to attend the Loids as a Com-
mittee of their Houfe for that Purpofe : The Lord-
General Monke, Mr, Pierepoint, Mr. Crewe, Col.
Rojjiter, Mr. Knlgbtley, Col. Popham, Col, Morleyt
Lord Fairfax, Sir Anthony AJbley Cooper, Sir Gilbert
Gerrard, Lord-Commiffioner Widdrington, Sir John
Evelyn, of F/ilts, Sir William Waller, Sir Richard
OtsJJow, Sir William Lewis, Col. Hurley, Col. Nor-
ton, Mr. Annejley, Mr. Holies, SIT John Temple, Mr,
Trevor, Sir jo bit Holland, Col. Birch, Mr, Sv>in»t
Of E N G L A N D. 289 '
Serjeant Maynard, Sir Join Northcot, Sir Anthony An. iz. Car. II;
/r£y, Lord Howard, Mr. Turner, Mr. //'»«&, Mr. 1660.
Morris^ and Sir Henry Telverton.
May.
jfc/rfy 15. This Day the Lords appointed a Com-
mitteeof their ownHoufe, toconfider what Ordinan-
ces have been made, fince the Peers in Parliament
were voted ufelefs, and which now pafs as Acts of
Parliament. And that they draw up and prepare a
Bill to prefent to the Houfe, to repeal what they
lhall think fit.
The lame Day the Commons ordered Secretary
Thurloe to be fecured by the Serjeant at Arms, on
a Charge of High Treafon exhibited againft him ;
and appointed a Committee to take his Examina-
tion that Afternoon. Ordered, * That Sir Henry
Mildmay, Mr. Cornelius Holland, and Mr. Nicholas
Love, do attend the Committee, for the King's
Reception; to give an Account what was become of
the Crowns, Robes, Sceptres, and Jewels, belonging
to his Majefty j and that fuch other Robes, or Scep-
tres, as have been provided at the public Charge, be
forthwith brought to the faid Committee, by fuch
Perfons as have them in their Cuftody.' It is pro-
bable thefe Regalia were not eafily found ; for we
find that the Commons, this Day, appointed Tho-
mas Langhorn, Citizen, and Skinner, of London ', to
provide new Robes of Ermines for his Majefty; and
Alderman Vyner to provide a Crown and Sceptre,
the Eftimate of which amounted to about 900 /. To
which the Lords alfo agreed.
The Commons next refumed the Debate upon
the Bill for a general Pardon, Indemnity, and Obli-
vion : And, after fome Time fpent therein, it was
refolved, * That John Brad/haw, deceafed, late Ser-
jeant at Law, Oliver Cromwell, deceafed, Henry
Ireton, deceafed, and Thomas Pride, deceafed, be
fome of thofe who (hall be attainted, by A& of Par-
liament, for the Murder of the late King's Majefty :
And that their Attainders fhall take Place from the
the ill Day of January, 1648;' after which the
faid Bill was committed to Lord Commiflioner Tyr+
VOL. XXII. T rtl/9
290 ¥he Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12. Car. II. rell, Sir Anthony Irby, Mr. Prynne, Mr. John Ste-
i_ -66°' . /^J> Serjeant Glyn, Mr. Turner, Lord Prefident
L~""]^ ' Annejley, Serjeant Maynard, Sir Walter Erie, Mr.
Swanton, Mr. Underdo, Mr. Foxwift, Mr. ^o^tf
The Bill for a Hatcher ; Serjeant /fa/W, Mr. JFY»<;A, Sir Gilbert
general Pardon Qerrard, Mr. G0tt, Mr. Wejion, Sir £«//>A yfyte,
committed. Colonej /r,/^ Mr. £«/.%, Mr. £/#/*», Colonel
J5/Vr£, Mr. Jolliffe, Mr. Charlton, Mr. Calmady,
Colonel #/«£, Sir JobnNorfhc/rt, Mr. Mallet, Lord
Commiffioner Widdrlngton, Sir y<?^« Lowther, Mr.
Brodrick, Colonel Litton, Mr. Peckham, Mr. //^«-
ry Hungerford, Serjeant Brotvn, Mr. Lucy, Mr.
Eamfield, Sir Trevor Williams, Colonel Jones, Sir
P*f*r Temple, Mr. Crouch, Sir Wilfrid Lawfon, Mr.
Ferrers, Mr. Earnley, Mr. Wendy, Sir William
Lewis, Colonel Bevvy er, Lord If award, Mr. Young,
Mr. Brooks, Colonel Harley, and all the Gentle-
men of the Long Robe.
The late King's ^^y 1 6. The Lords were this Day informed, that
Statue, now at the Earl of Portland had lately difcovered where a
Charing Crofs, |jrafs Horfe, with his late Majefty's Figure upon it,
was hid ; which, in Juftice, the Earl fuppofes be-
Jongs to him ; and there being no Courts of Juftice
now open, wherein he can fue for it, doth humbly
defire the Lords to order it to be removed from the
Place where it now is ; not defaced nor otherways
difpofed of, till the Title be determined at Law to
whom it belongs. The Lords ordered accordingly.
This was the famous Statue fmce fet up at Charing-
Crofs.
The Earl of Dorfet reported, from the Commit-
tee for the King's Reception, that Yefterday they
had before them feveral of the King's Servants,
Sir Robert Fenn, Sir Henry Wood, Clerk of the
Green Cloth, Mr. Kennerfley, of the Wardrobe,
Mr. Armory, of the Stable, and Mr. Jackfon, Clerk
of the Kitchen j and they gave in thefe Eftimates
following, viz.
For Neceflaries for the King's pre- 1 /. s. d,
fent Reception, as Silver Plates of fe- > 220O o o
veral Sorts and Sizes j
Broughjt
Of ENGLAND.
Brought over 2200
For Table Linen of all Sorts — ' 300
For a Week's Diet at 53 /. per Diem 350
For Coaches and Stables — — 2950
For furniming his Majefty's Bed- 1 g
Chamber, CSfr. J
For repairing the Mews — •— IOOO
Repair of Whitehall, St. James's \
and Somerfet-Hoitfe, eftimated at J $000
The Crown and Sceptre, betides > .
Robes y "
o o
o o
o o
14501 19 o
This Report was confirmed by the Houfe.
An Order was made by the Houfe of Commons,
on this Day, that James Northfolk, Efq; Serjeant
at Arms attending that Houfe, fhould forthwith feize
upon, and fecure, all the Goods, £sV. late belonging
to John Brad/haw^ Serjeant at Law, wherever he
can find them : And that, in Cafe of Refiftance, he
be impowered to break open any Doors and Locks
for the more effectual Execution of this Service.
Alfo, that the Records, Books, Papers, and other
Writings, relating to the Public, in the Hands of
Mr. John Phelpes, be forthwith fecured by Mr,
Prynne and Colonel Bowyer, Members of this Houfe,
and fuch as have been removed and fecured, in whofe
Hands foever they may be found. An Order was
made likewife, That all the Books and Papers be-
longing to the Library of the Archbifhop of Can-
terbury, and now, or lately, in the Hands of Hugh
Peters^ be forthwith fecured.
Mr. Annefley^ Lord Prefident of the Council of
State, reported, from them, a Particular of the Sums
of Money charged, by Order and Warrants of the
Council of State, upon the feveral Treafuries there-
in named, from February 25th, 1659, to May 1 5th,
1660, which was as follows :
T * A
292 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12. Car.H.y/ PARTICULAR of the Sums of Money, charged ty
56o< Orders and Warrants from the Council of State,
the federal Treasuries after-named, from Fe-
bruary 25, 1659, to May 15, 1660, viz.
Charged on the Receipt of the public Exchequer.
Charges on the For his Excellency the Lord- -j /. s. d.
Revenue by the General Monke, on an Aft of the /
Counc.1 of State. Jate parliamentj cf whkh there is >2000C
yet unpaid the Sum of 48567. J
For Dunkirk Garrifon 19006 8 10
For Savoy and -£/y-//0&/^Hofpitals 2000 0 O
For the Council's Contingencies 8400 o o
For Mr. Martin Noell, to en-^
able him to ftrike a Tally, for fo
much paid by him, on Orders of
the former Council of State, to
Gen. Montagu, and for the Com-
miflioners Plenipotentiaries of this
Commonwealth at the Sound
For Alderman Thomas Vyner and"
Aid. ChriJIopherPacke, Treafurers
for the Collection-Money for Pied-
mont and Poland, for fo much or-
dered from them, by the late Par-
liament, into the Exchequer, none
of which is paid
And for fo much depofited in the'
Exchequer, of clipp'd Brafs Mo-
ney, Part of the faid Collection-
Money
For the Earl and Countefs of
Nottingham, on Penfions from his
late A'lajefty, and confirmed by
Parliament, viz.
To the faid Earl, all unpaid — 300 o O
To the faid Countefs, all unpaid 200 o O
For the Gentleman Porter, War- "1
ders, and Gunners, at the Tower, [ , ?
~for two Quarters, ended March 25, { J
1660, no Part paid -^
Carried over 66773 7 n
Brought
7252 6 2
7978 8 9
475 19 *•
Of ENGLAND 293
/. s. d. An. 12. Car. H.
Brought over 66773 j66o<
For Chrtjlopher Piercehay^ Efq;")
Receiver -General for York/hire,
to enable him to ftrike a Tally for
fo much paid by him out of his Re- v
ceipt, on Order of the late Coun- f
cil, to Col. Samuel Clarke, for Pay I
of his Regiment on their March to I
Scotland
68273 7
Of which Sum of - 68273 7 ill-
There is paid but - : — 34386 13 3£
So there is unpaid thereof 33886 14, 8-p
'And of what was paid, there "I
came into the Council's I
Contingencies no more I J
than J
Charged on the Council's Contingencies.
By Warrant on Mr, William -j
^ on the iooo/. by him re- I
ceivtd at the Receipt of Exche- 1 I00p ° °
quer J
Charged on Mr. Thomas Parry,
Treafurer of the Council's Con-
tingencies.
For feveral public Services — — 1427 14 10
For Salaries and Difburfements }
to Officers in Arrear 5 IQ
To feveral Perfons, on Account 7
for Repairs J 710 ° °
To the Officers of the late Par- ? • ' "g-
liament, on their Orders i J43 I5
o 4
For Dunkirk — — 1650 10 3
For Biljs of Exchange from 1
public Minifters abroad 5 I7°°-
Carried over 9960 17 8
T 3 Brought
294 The Parliamentary HISTORY
/. s.
An. I*. Car. II.
Brought over 0060 17
8
For Repair of Garrifons~ • 800 o
o
[T*«jMigk| 20 Q
o
For Relief, «
- not paid 5 *° °
o
For the Ar-
'ToCol.Stretter, J
to pay off Gun- C 69 o
nerSjdsV. not pd j
To Lt. Col. />*/>-•)
0
my,
par, for Fire and /
Candle at Bury f 5 J3
3
St. Edmond's J
To Sir John Gren- "|
w7/^,byfomuch f
By Order of
borrow'dofMr. f S°° °
Q
the prefent^
Parliament, 1
Forth J
To General Ed- J
ward Montagu, > 500 O
not paid 3
0
So the To
Council'
ByWarran
J'/°P
al charged on the )
sContingenciesis,r9°65 «>
II
ts charged on Mr. j IOQO Q
0
on Mr. Parry 11865 o
o
12865 o
0
Whereof paid by Mr. Jeffop, J
being the Whole received >• 1000 o
o
by him J
By Mr. Parry, Part of 2000 /. "J
by him received, with the ( ,
500 /. advanced by Mr. f 4 *3
3
Forth
J
Total paid
is — • ' 3460 i?
3
So refts unpaid — — 9404 6
9
Charged on the Committee for the Army.
For the Forces in England — 8938 4 6
Carried over
Brought
Of E N G L A N D. 295
/. s. d. An. 12. Car. II.
Brought over 8938 4 6 l66°-
For the Forces in Scotland — 13329 8 o **~M£~**
For the Forces in, and belong- ? «77CO o
ing to, Ireland } ^^
For tranfporting 70 Recruits to 7 40 o o
Dunkirk 3 — :: ~T
45657 12 6
Charged on the Almoner, Dr. Barnard.
For Lady Inchequin, not paid - 100 O O
For Inhabitants of Dover, for }
quartering fick and wounded Sol- > 300 O O
diers fent from Dunkirk, not paid J
For Mr. Samuel Rartlib, in Part }
of his Arrears of what was allow'd > 200 o o
him by the State, not paid 3 5OO ^ ^"
Charged on the Treafury of the Navy.
For General Af0;rtfl£H, advanced 7 Q
on his going to Sea 3
For General Penn, for a fpe- 7 I00 o o
cial Service $
Charged on the Treafurers for ) /-
the Piedmont Colleaion-Money 5
Charged on the Prize-Office — 45 o o
Charged on Sherwood- Foreft -— 20 o o
5321 o o
PENSIONS charged by Orders of tie Council sf State.
On the Exchequer, per Week 17 5 o
On the Cour
cies, per Week
On the Council's Contingen- 1
to > 10 o o
The Houfe approved of this Account, in all its
Particulars; and ordered, That the Monies charged
by the refpe6tive Warrants be paid accordingly :
And the Thanks of the Houfe were ordered alfo to
be returned by the Speaker to the Council, for their
great and careful Service's.
A
, 296 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An; ««. Car. II. A Lift of fuch of his Majefty's Ships of the Na-
1660. vy-Royal, now in Pay, and not of the Summer's
Guard ; with an Account of the Wages due to them,
to the firft of May^ 1660, and the Charge they are
at, was read as followeth :
May.
• Rates. Skip*
Men. Guns. Waget due to May i .
/. s. d.
A Lift of the 3. Lamport
Navy of England Torrin gton •—
at this Time, ^- >tP '
4. Kentiih
210 50
210 52
150 40
#854 i 9
. .9^80 3 9
3025 6 o
Maidilone —
140 40
6386 14 3
Centurion —
150 40
4432 8 8
Dover — —
140 40
5206 ii 9
Hampftiire —
13° 38
2163 14 3
Namptwich -
140 40
4430 H 3
Prefton
140 40
3785 H 3
Portland —
156 40
657811 9
Ta union —
140 40
5220 o 3
Dragon •
i'3° 38
437° 6 o
Elias
no 36
5175 4 8
Succefs
ioo 34
3310 10 3
Prefident —
J3° 38
3167 3 o
Conft. Warwick
115 32
2619 10 3
Tyger
130 38
5H7 7 6
Marmaduke -
no 32
2629 18 6
5. Soilings —
IOO 22
5811 18 o
Forefter
ICO 22
2787 7 2
Coventry —
90 2O
3579 8 10
Convert
QO 26
4604 19 o
He6tor —
85 20
2480 12 o
Greyhound -
85 20
3512 3 9
Lizard —
60 16
1619 o o
6. Weymouth -
60 14
1415 10 o
Wolfe — —
60 1 6
3452 15 Q
Francis —
45 Jo
1007 ~6 4
Cygnet — —
Lilly
35 6
35 6
840 14 o
833 2 6
Roe
35 8
1545 19 6
Hunter —
30 6
88 1. 7 6
Carried over 3441 120162 4 8
Brought
Of E N G L A N D. 297
P.atet. Sbips.
Men. Guns. Wages due to May i.
/.
s.
d.
Brought over
3441
120162
4
8
6.
Griffin
40
12
l693
ii
8
Chcfnut —
40
IO
1440
T4
0
Cagway —
35
8
648
9
8
Pearl
25
4
1985
9
9
Dolphin —
25
4
620
17
3
TrueWe ?
Henrietta 3
60
12
1179
J7
6
Hart — —
35
8
1260
19
6
Ships 40 — Men 3681 • 128992 4 o
Memorandum, The Charge of thefe forty Ships,
which are unneceflUi ily kept abroad, will, for every
Month they continue unpaid, amount to the Sum of
11,085 /.
May 17. The Lords heard a Report, from their
Committee of Privileges, by the Lord Roberts, that
it was their Opinion, that when a MeiTiige is brought
from the Houfe of Commons, the Speaker of this
Houfe is to go to the Bar alorfe, and receive the Mef-
iage ; the reft of the Lords fitting in their Places ;
•which the Houfe approved of, and ordered it to be
added to the Roll of the Orders of this Houfe.
The Commons ordered, That alt the Titles of
Honour received from the late Protectors, Other
and Richard, or' from Henry Cromwell, Son of the
faid Oliver, by any Perfon named a Commiflianer,
in the Ordinance for three Months Afleflment, be
omitted and ftruck out of the faid Ordinance.
The Bill for laying an AffeiTment of 7O,000/. a
Month, for three Months, was this Day read a third
Time ; and, after allowing the following additional
Amendment, fent from the Lords, the Commons
palled the Bill ; and fent it back to the Lords for
their Concurrence.
4 Whereas the Pay of his Majefty's Armies depends
upon due Satisfaction of the Arrears of former AfTefT-
ments and of the AiTeflment of 100,000 /. by the
Month, now collecting by virtue of an Act, for fix
Months,
May.
298 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. ia. Car. II. Months, beginning the 25th of December laft pafi,
1660. an£j en<jjng the 24th of "June next, and other Reve-
C""T^"""<1~' nues due by Recufants and others; whereof, if punc-
tual and timely Payment be not made (tho' not origi-
nally impofed by fuch an Authority as was legal) the
Soldiers will be neceffitated to live upon free Quar-
ter, to the great Oppreifion of the feveral Counties :
Out of a tender Care, therefore, to prevent fo great
an Inconvenience to the Country, and Difcourage-
ment to the Soldiery, and to promote his Majefty's
prefent Service, the Lords and Commons in Parlia-
ment aflembled do hereby order and declare, (in re-
f'pect of the inftant Necefiky, there being no other
"Way to avoid the Inconveniency herein mentioned)
That the Commiflioners for the AfTelTment, in the
feveral Counties, Cities, and Places, by virtue hereof,
do proceed effectually for the getting in of all Arrears
of Affeffments, and of the Monies unpaid upon the
faid Act, or any other Act, according to the Pro-
portions and Powers therein contained : And all
Collectors and other Perfons whatfoever, charged
with ths Gathering or Payment of any Part thereof,
are forthwith (all Pretences and Excufes to the con-
trary fet aiide) to fatisfy and pay their feveral and re-
fpective Proportions, according to the Directions of
the faid Acts, as they will avoid fuch Penalties as will
necelTarily fall upon them, in cafe of their Refufal,
and the further Difpleafure of the Parliament. And
it is further ordered and declared, That all Receivers,
and other Officers and Perfons, as well Tenants, as
others whatfoever, concerned in the Receipt or Pay-
ment of any Part of the Revenue, do make due Ac-
compts and Payments of what they, and every of
them, are charged with, or liable to ; as they will
be anfwerablc for their Contempt and Neglect, in a
Time when his Majefty's and the Kingdom's Ser-
vice and Occafions require the moft punctual Satif-
faction of what is refpectively due from them : And
the Receipt of the feveral Treafurers appointed for the
AfTeffinents, and the Officers of the Exchequer there-
unto appointed refpectively, fhall be a fufficientDif-
charge to all Perfon and Perfons, that fhall make
Pay-
Of E N G L A N D. 299
Payment of any Sura of Sums of Money, by virtue An. it. Car. n.
hereof/
May 1 8. A MeflTage was brought from the Houfe
of Commons, by Mr. Prynne and others, with feveral
Votes, whereunto he defired their Lordfhips Con-
currence.
' Refolved upon the Queftion by the and
Commons afiembled in Parliament, That all the
Perfons who fat in Judgment upon the late King's
Majefty, when Sentence of Death was pronounced
againft him and the Eftates, both Real and Perfonal,
of all and every the faid Perfons (whether in their
own Hands, or any other in Truft for their or any
of their Ufes) who are fled, be forthwith feized and
fecured, and the refpe&ive Sheriffs and other Officers
whom this may concern are to take effectual Order
accordingly.
' Refolved by the and Commons in Par-
liament aflembled, That nothing in the Orders
touching the feizing of the Perfons or Eftates of
thofe who fat in Judgment upon the late King, do
in any wife extend to Col. Matthew Tojniinfon or his
Eftate.
' Refolved by the and Commons in Par-
liament aflembled, That the Council of State do
forthwith take Order for flopping of all the Ports,
to the End that none of thofe who are ordered to
be apprehended, as having fat in Judgment upon the
late King's Majefty, may make his Efcape beyond
the Seas.
' Refolved, That thefe Votes, with a Lift of the
Names of thofe who are to be fecured, be fent up
to the Lords and their Concurrence defired.
John Bradjhaw, Serjeant Col. Henry Ireton.
at Law, Prefident of the Sir Hardrefs Waller.
pretended High Court Valentine Wanton, Efq;
of Juftice. Thomas Harrifon, Efq;
John Z,;/^Efq; Edward Whaley, Efq;
William %, Efq; Thomas Pride, Efq;
Oliver Cromwell, Efq; Ifaac Ewert Efq;
Lord
3 oo
Parliamentary HISTORY
An. la. Car. II. Lord Grey, of Grooby.
1660. Sir John Danvers, Knt.
*— -v— ^ Sir Thomas Maleverer,
May< Knt. and Bart.
ourchier, Knt.
. Hevcningbam, Efq;
Alderman Pennington of
London. ,
William Pursfoy, Efq;
Henry Mart 'en , Efq;
7o/;« Bark/had, Efq;
Matthew Tomlinfon, Efq;
5M» Blakijhn, Efq;
Gilbert Millington, Efq;
Sir William Conjlable,
Bart.
Edmund Ludlow, Efq;
_7^« Hutchinfon, Efq;
Sir Michael Livefay^
Bart.
Robert Ticlborne^ Efq;
Owen Rowe^ Efq;
Robert Li/burtie, Efq;
Adrian Scrape^ Efq;
Richard Deane, Efq;
, Efq;
n^ Efq;
, Efq;
Cornelius Holland^ Efq;
, Efq;
John "Jones, Efq;
Miles Corbet, Efq;
Francis Allen, Efq;
Peregrine Pelham, Efq;
John Moore, Efq;
John Alured, Efq;
Henry Smyth, Efq;
Humphrey Edwards, Efq;
Greogry Clements, Efq;
Thomas Wogan^ Efq;
Sir Gregory Norton, Knt.
Edmund Harvey, Efq;
^o^ Penne, Efq;
Thomas Scott, Efq;
Thomas Andrews,
William Cawley,
Anthony Stapley,
John DowneSy
Thomas Horton,
Thomas Hammond,
Augujlin Garland, Efq;
George Fleetwood, Efq;
James Temple, Efq;
Daniel Blagravt, Efq;
Thomas ffrayte, Efq;
Nicholas Love, Efq;
Vincent Potter, Efq;
^tf/Jtt Dixwell, Efq;
Mayne, Efq;
Temple, Efq;
The Earl of Lincoln, Vifc. &2y and 6W^, and.Lord
Roberts being appointed by the Houfe to confider of
the faid Votes with the Lift of the Names, they went
out of the Houfe prefently to confider of fhe fame.
The Meflengers of the Houfe of Commons being
called in, they were told by the Speaker, That the
Lords would return an Anfwer concerning the faid
Votes and Lift by Meflengers of their own.
Lord Roberts reported, That the Committee
thought fit, inftead of the firft Vote, to have this
Order following to be made, viz.
« Upon
Of ENGLAND. 301
c Upon Complaint made this Day, by the Com- An. 12. Car. II.
mons in Parliament afTembled, That all thefe Per- l66o«
fons, viz. John Brad/haw , John Lijle> and the reft, ^"^M^*^
(except Matthew Tomllnfon) who fat in Judgment
upon the late King's Majefty when Sentence of
Death was pronounced againft him; and the Eflates,
both Real and Perfonal, of all and every the faid
Perfons (whether in their own Hands, or in the Hands
of any in Truft for their or any of their Ufes) who
are fled, be forthwith feized and fecured ; and the
refpective Sheriffs and other Officers whom this may
concern, are to take effectual Order accordingly.'
The Houfe, after fome Confideration of the faid
Report, agreed unto the Alteration, and confented
unto the Order accordingly ; and ordered, that the
fame, with the Lift aforei'aid, fhall be printed and
publifhed.
And touching the reft of the faid Matters in the
Votes, the Lords fent a MefTage to the Houfe of
Commons by Mr. Rich and Mr. Eltonhead, for a
Conference to be had with them the next Morning,
by Eleven o'Clock, in the Painted-Chamber.
May 19. This Day the Conference was held be-
tween the two Houfes, on the Subject of the Votes
aforefaid ; when the Earl of Manchejler^ deputed
by the Lords, offered the following Reafons : He
was to let the Houfe of Commons know, ' That
their Lordmips do not agree to thefe Votes as they
were brought up, in refpecl: they do intrench upon
the antient Privileges of this Houfe; Judicature in
Parliament being folely in the Lords Houfe, and the
Votes brought up were fuch.
' That notwithftanding their Lordmips were fo
careful of the Matter as they would not lofe Time
for the Manner, and therefore have iflued out an
Order of their own for doing that which was defir'd ;
in which Order Col. Tomlinfon is omitted, accord -
ing to the Defire of the Houfe of Commons.
' That the third Vote relates to a Council of
State, which the Lords conceive not in Being, and
therefore have refolved that fuch Emergencies as fhall •
302 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. ia. Car.n.neceflarily arife during his Majefly's Abfence, and
1660. untjjj hjs pieafure be further known, for his Maje-
^""'Uf"1"1'"' fty's Service and the Peace of the Kingdom, fhall be
tranfacted henceforth by the Committee of Lords
and Commons appointed for the Reception of his
Majefty, wherein their Lordfliips defire the Concur-
rence of the Houfe of Commons.'
The Commons, in a Grand Committee, went
upon Ways and Means for the fpeedy raifing of a
confiderable Sum of Money, for the Satisfaction of
the Arrears due to the Army and Navy ; and came
to a Refolution, That a Poll-Bill fhould be brought
in for raifing 400,000 /. for that Purpofe.
Mayi\. The Commons heard the Report of the
late Conference with the Lords, concerning their
Votes for fecuring the Perfons and Eftates of the
King's Judges ; and appointed a Committee to pe-
rufe their own Journal-Books, ftate the Matter of
Fact upon the whole, and prepare Heads for a free
Conference with the Lords about it. They alfo
ordered that all the Ports fhould be ftopp'd, to the
End that none of thofe Perfons fhould make their
Efcape beyond the Seas : And that no Money or
Bullion be exported without the Approbation of
Parliament.
May 22. This Day another Conference was held
between the two Houfes, on the Subject of the laft,
and of which we find this Entry in the Lords "Jour-
nals :
« The Earl of Manche/ter reported the Effect of
the free Conference this Morning, which hisLord-
fhip faid was managed by Mr. Annefley ; who faid,
The Houfe of Commons had an earneft Defire to
continue a fair Correfpondency between both the
Houfes i and they were fenfible what Diftempers
have been for many Years paft ; and they defired
that all Breaches might be healed ; that this Confe-
rence was to preferve a good Underftanding.
' The Commons faid, That they had feen a
printed Paper, which was printed and publifh'd from
their
Of E N G L A N D. 303
their Lordfttips, without their Concurrence or aCon- An. »a. Car. If.
Terence, or taking Notice of it : The Paper is dated l66°-
the 1 8th of May Inftant, which mentions, That, ^^^"^
upon Complaint made by the Commons in Parlia-
ment, it is ordered, by the Lords in Parliament,
That divers Peribns (hould be fecured, who fat in
Judgment upon the late King's Majefty, when Sen-
tence of Death was pronounced ; which Order leaves
them out, contrary to their Refolution, as they pre-
fented it to this Houfe for Concurrence.
' The Houfe of Commons take Notice that there
was no Complaint in this Cafe made by the Com-
mon*, nor is there any Entry thereof in their Jour-
ma Is.
4 If there had been a Complaint preceding, the
Lords could not have proceeded as they have, in a
judicial \Vay, without Confent of the Commons.
' As this Cafe is, the Point of Judicature is not
in Queftion.
1. ' The Order fent by the Commons to the
Lords for their Concurrence, is not in a judicial,
but in an extraordinary Way, and for a notorious
and tran fcendent Crime.
2. ' The Law allowed no fuch Proceedings re-
gularly before Conviction.
3. * This was in order only to bring them to a
judicial Proceeding.
4. The Lords fent feveral Orders to the Com-
mons in the Cafes of Sales, fecuring Rents, and
hindering of cutting or felling of \Vood or Timber;
wherein the Commons concurred, and this before
the Parties heard : And this is a Cafe of Members
of the Lords Houfe, all being afiented unto as Cafes
of Extremity.
* The Houfe of Commons fay they cannot admit
the Lords Judicature fo largely as they aflert it; but
Judicature, as aforefaid, not being in Queftion, they
decline this Difpute.
' They conceive the Lords intrench upon the
Commons Privileges ; for Colonel Hutchinjon, u
Member of the Houfe of Commons, could not
be under fuch an Order of the Lords, upon any
304 The Parliamentary HISTORY'
An. 12 Car.ll.Account, unlefs the Commons Order had been con-
166°- fented to.
<~~y^~* ' By this Way, if allowed, the Lords may vary
from any Orders fent up by the Commons, without
a Conference, and ground their Variation upon
pretended Complaint of the Commons when there
is none.
' The printing of the Lords Order before the
Conference with the Commons, or their Aflent, is>
a further intrenching upon the Privilege of the
Commons.
4 Hereupon the Houfe appointed a Committee to
confider what Anfwer is fit to be returned to the
Houfe of Commons, upon the Matter of this free
Conference, whereby a good Correfpondency may
be kept between the Houfes, and the Privileges of
this Houfe prcferved.'
However, for the prefent, the Lords ordered
their Speaker to let the Members of the Houfe of
Commons know, that their Lordihips will be care-
ful to preferve the Privileges and good Correfpond-
ency between both Houfes ; and that they will take
the Matter of this free Conference into fpeedy Con-
fideration.
> Several Peers had Leave given them to attend the
King on his Landing ; the fame Leave was given
to General Monke by the Houfe of Commons, and
to fuch other Members of that Houfe as he fliould
deure to accompany him.
May 23. The following Letter from the Lords,
who were fent by their Houfe to his Majefty, was
read :
For tie Rt. Hon. the Earl of MANCHESTER,
Speaker of the Houfe of PEERS,
My Lord,
A Letter from c "1 1C 7*E have delivered the Letters and Meflage
the Committee c y y intruded to us by the Houfe of Peers, and
the King,6*" t0 * found a moft gracious Reception from his Majefty,
' who
Of E N G L A N D. 305
* who is pleafed to declare (wl.ich we defire
' Lordfliips to communicate to the Houfe) that he
* intends to depart from hence on Monday next, be- M
c ing theaift of this Month, to land at Dover \ and,
' after a fhort Stay at Canterbury^ to continue his
' Journey to London^ and there to refide with his
' Court at Whitehall. This we are commanded to
' impart to your LordQiips from his Majefty, and
« remain Tgur Lor^^'s my humbie Servants,
OXFORD, BERKLEY.
MIDDLESEX, BROOK.
Vifc. HERTFORD,
* Ordered, That the Committee for the King's
Reception do meet this Afternoon, and confider
what is fit for the prefent to be done to receive his
Majefty:' And
A MefTage was fent to the Houfe of Commons to
let them know that the Lords have appointed their
Committee for the King's Reception to meet this
Afternoon, and to defire the Committee of that
Houfe may likewife meet; which was agreed to.
Another Letter was fent, of the fame Date, to the
Houfe of Commons, from their Members fent to
the King, but it is not entered in their Journals.
To (hew the Frugality of thofe Times, in Re-
gard of the Furniture thought neccflary to be pro-
vided for the King's and Royal Family's Reception,
the following Lift, as it was read and approved on
by the Houfe of Commons, may not be unaccept-
able to the Reader.
An Eftimate of the Charge of") /. s. d.
making up of a rich Cloth of State,
with a Chair, three Stools, and two
Cufhions, out of an old Canopy of )> 200 o O
State, and Tome imperfect Furniture
of a Crimfon Velvet Bed fuitable,
will amount to about the Sum of
For repairing of an old Chair of ,
State, with three Stools fuitable to it \ — — — - — ~
Carried over 22° o o
VOL. XXII. U Brought
306 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12. Car, II. Brought over 22O O . Q>
For repairing, with fpme Addi--\
tions, of the rich incarnate Velvet I
Bed, being for the Reception of his > IO O O
Majefty, before the other can be I
made J
For a Counterpoint to it, which 1
will contain 30 Yards of Cloth of (. g rt n
Silver, lined with Bays and Taffaty f
Sarfenet J
Three Pair of fine Fuftian Blankets 16 IO O
For 12 new Fuftian and Holland 1
Quilts for his Majefty's incarnate C 48 O O
VelvetBed, and the two Dukes Beds J
For three Pair of the beft Spanijh .
Blankets for thofe Beds
For three large fine round Down
Bolfters
For three neceffary Stools of Vel-
vet for thofe Beds } 3°
For three French Tables for thofe
Beds
For 30 Pallet-Beds, of the largeft "J
Size, for the two Dukes ; 30 Tape- ( ,
itry Counterpoints, and 30 Pair of \ 3
Blankets J
Twelve Pair of fine Ho/land Sheets 1
for the Dukes of York and Glou- r 172 16 O
cefter's own Beds
For making and wafhing thefe 12 ? ,
Pair of Sheet! } 6 12 O
For 60 Pair of Sheets for 30 Pallet 1 ,
Beds aforefaid will coft \ 207 IO
For making and wafhing thefe 60 ? ,
Pair of Sheets £ 6 O O
For I2lb. of fweet Powder to put \
to the whole Provifion of Sheets \ 3 (
For 10 Damafk Curtains, con-S
taining 240 Yards of Damafk, and \
lined with Fuftian, and Making, | 24°
them J —
with Rings and Tape to them
Total 1721
Of E N G L A N D. 307
May 2.4.. Nothing was done this Day in either An, 12. Car. II.
Houfe, but reading Tome Bills, an Account of which l66°-
will fall better in the Sequel. But, — ^M*~
May 25. Both Houfes agreed to fend congratu-
latory Letters to their Committees with the King,
to deliver to his Majefty on his landing in England \
which he was now very near doing, as the Reader will
find by a fubfequent Letter from Admiral Montagu
to the Lords. The Letter from the Houfe of Com-
mons to the King is only mentioned in their Jour-
rials, as reported and approved on by that Houfe,
but not entered : Thofe from the Lords are, and
ran in thefe Words :
To the KING'J Mojl Excellent Majefty >
May it plea fe your Majefty ^
THE Senfe your faithful Subjects the Peers, Another Letter
now affe-mbled, have of your Majefty's fafeflom the Speak.
.... ,. r> i 7 r r / j • r eroi the Houfe
Arrival into this your Realm of hngland is fo ci- Lorch to the
great, as obligeth them, by all dutiful Acknow-King.
lodgments, to exprefs the fame by thefe Lines,
before they have the Honour and Hnppinefs to do
it perfonally to your Majefty ; which they intend
to perform fo foon as they {hall receive Significa-'
tion of your Majefty's Pleafure when, where, and
in what Manner they (hall wait upon you. And,
as your faithful Council, do humbly offer to your
Majefty's Deliberation fo to confult the Safety of
your Royal Perfon, wherein they are highly con-
cerned, that, in your Return to London, the Se-
curity thereof be preferred to all external Confi-
derations ; which, out of our Zeal to your Maje-
fty, is humbly offered by
Tour Majefty's moft humble t faithful y
And obedient Suljefls and Servants.
Signed in the Names, and by the Command, of
the faid Houfe of Peers-, by
Weftminfter, 7 £. MANCHESTER,
May z5, 1660. $ Speaker pro. Tempore.
U 2 Th?
308 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12. Car. II. The Letter to the Commiflioners was as follows :
1660.
^"T? To the Rt. Hon. the Earl of OXFORD, and the reft
of the Lords CommiJJioners with his Majefty >
My Lords, Weftminfter^ May 25, 1660.
' T Am commanded by the Houfe of Peers, now
4 J[ aflembled, to inclofe this Letter in your Lord-
' fhips to his Majefty from them, which they defire
' your Lordfhips would prefent to his Majefty fo
4 foon as with Conveniency you may. This is all
' I am commanded, who am
Your Lordjhips moft humble Servant,
E. MANCHESTER,
Speaker of the Houfe of Peers
pro Tempore.
General Montagu's Letter.
Te the Rt. Hon. the SPEAKER of the Houfe of PEERS.
About ten Leagues from Scheveling,
My Lord, May 23, 1660.
Notice from Ad- 1 TJTAving appointed a Rendezvous of as many
SujcSg? ' -ML ShiPs as could be got together in the Bay of
«mbarJcing,° ' Scheveling, that I might the better receive his Ma-
* jefty's Commands, in order to his happy Return to
4 England, it pleafed his moft gracious Majefty, this
* Day about Noon, to embark himfelf in the Naze-
' by, riding before Scheveling. Their Royal High-
* nefles the Dukes of York and Gloucejler, the Prin-
' cefs Royal, Queen of Bohemia, and the Prince of
* Orange, accompanied his Majefty on board ; and,
* about three Hours after, the Duke of York em-
4 barking in the London, the Duke of Gloucejler
* in the Swiftfure, the Princefs Royal, the Queen
* of Bohemia, and Prince of Orange, returned to
* Scheveling; and the Fleet fet Sail, by his Majefty's
4 Command, bound for-the Port of Dover, whither
4 I truft God will give us a fpeedy and profperous
e Paffage, I apprehend it my Duty to give your
4 Lord-
uj n n G L A N D. 309
* Lord /hips the fooneft Advertifement thereof I An. 12. <_*. .
c could, and fo remain
Tour Lordfoip's mojl humble May.
And faithful Servant,
E. MONTAGU.
The Commons read a fecond Time, and com-
mitted to a Comittee of the whole Houfe, a Bill for
taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries, and
all Tenures in Capite, or by Knights Service; and,
on the Queftion, refolved, ' That the Sum of
1 00,ooo /. a-year be fettled on the King's Majefty,
in lieu of the faid Court and Tenures.'
May 28. Nothing material was done in cither
Houfe, Sunday intervening, till this Day; when the
Speaker of the Houfe of Lords acquainted their
Lordmips with a Letter he had received by the
Hands of Mr. Berkeley, which, being opened, ap-
peared to be a Letter from the King, and was read
in his Verbis :
To our Trufty and right Well-beloved the SPEAKER
•of our Houfe of PEERS, to be communicated to
the Lords there afTembled ;
CHARLES R.
Right Trufty and Intirely-beloved Coufins, Right
Trufty and Right Well-beloved Coufins, and
Right Trufty and Well-beloved, we Greet you
Well.
/fFter we had received your Invitation, we made The King's Let.
-^ all pojjible Expedition to embark, and return /<? ter to the Lords
cur native Kingdom. It hath pleafed God to bring us**1'
fafe to Land, and we hope that Peace and Happinefs
'jhall be brought to our Kingdoms with us. We know
vur own Heart to have nothing but Affection to the
Good of all our People ; and we cannot doubt of God's
Bleffing on our Councils and Endeavours, for the ad-
vancing the Honour and Happinefs of our Kingdoms.
Wt cannot diftruft but that you will anj'wer the Pro-
U 3 fejjions
310 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12. Car.ll.ffjjions you have made of your Loyalty and Affeftion
1660. tit cur Service •, and, you may be Jure, that we will
V.. '— v— "-J le deficient in nothing that becomes a gracious Prince
Ma>'* to bis faithful Subjefts. We hope Jkortly to fee you,
and da intend to fet forward from hence on Monday
next, and we bole to arrive at London on Tuefday in
the Afternoon, and will then give you timely Notice
where, and when, to attend us ; and, in the mtan
Time, W bid you heartily farewell.
Given at oui Court at Canterbury, this 26th Day
of May , 1660, in the I2th Year of our Reign.
After the foregoing Letter was read, the Lord
Berkley, one of the Commiffioners fent over to the
King, acquainted the Houfe, That he was com-
manded by his Majefty to let their Lordmips know,
the King intended to be the next Day at Whitehall^
at Twelve o'Clock, where he expected their Lord-
ihips to attend him in a full Aflembly.
Another Letter, to the fame Purport as the laft
to the Lords, from the King, was prefented to the
Houfe of Commons by Lord Falkland^ and was read
to that Houfe by their Speaker, {landing up in his
Chair.
The late Lords Commiflioners of the Great Seal,
according to the Order of the Houfe, did this Day
bring the Great. Seal, in their Cuflcdy, to the
Cleric's Table, and delivered the fame to i:he Speaker :
And a Smith being lent for forthwith, he was or-
dered to deface and break in Pieces the laid Seal at
the Bar, the Houfe then fitting j which was done
accordingly, and the Pieces thereof were delivered
to the late Commiflioners as their Fees.
May 29. The Commons had been bufy fome
Time in preparing Orders. ;md Ordinances on ieve-
ral Occafions, which the Lords thought fit to alter
the Nature and Titles of, and throw them into the
Prei(/;ative Royal by Proclamations, as was an-
ticnily the Praclice in this Realm. The firft In-
fbnce of this Kind, fmce the late Usurpations,
which both Houfes agreed to, was an Ordinance
changed
Of E N G L A N D. 3u
changed into a Royal Proclamation, concerning the An. 12. Car. II.
Rebels in Ireland, thought neceilary at this Time to l66°-
be offered to the King, with others, to damp all the V« —•«"• «J
Hopes the Papifts might cherifh on this extraordi- May*
nary Revolution. The Form of thefe Acts of State
are only preferved in the 'Journals of the Lords, and
two of them being entered there, as this Day, it is
thought proper to give them as they run in the an-
tient Form of Proclamations; the reft, as they occur,
in the Sequel.
CHARLES, by the Grace of God, King of Eng-
land, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of
of the Faith, &c.
To all our loving Subjefls of England and Ireland,
Greeting.
* *\1C7'E taking Notice, by the Information of A Proclamation
e VV the Lords and Commons now afrembledfor7r£^"^ »n the
« in Parliament, that, after the vaftExpence of Blood Kmss* 'me>
' and Treafure for the fuppreffing of the late horrid
c Rebellion in Ireland, begun in October, 1641,
' there are yet many of the Natives of that our
' Kingdom, deeply guilty of that Rebellion, who
6 have lately broke out into new Acts of Force and
' Violence, fome robbing, murdering, and defpoil-
' ing feveral of our Englijh Proteftant Subjects there
f planted ; others of them, by Force, entering upon
' and difquieting the Poffeflion of feveral Adven-
* turers and Soldiers there, to the great and manifeft
* Difturbance and Hinderance of our Englijh Plan-
* tation : And being very fenfible of the innocent
c Blood of fo many Thousands of our Englijh Pro-
6 teftant Subjects formerly flain by the Hands of
* thofe barbarous Rebels, and of new Mifchiefs of
* the fame Kind likely to fall out, as the fad Iffue
e and Confequence of fo unhappy Beginnings, do
' therefore, by the Advice of the faid Lords and
* Commons now aiTembled, as well to teftify our
* utter abhorring the faid late Rebellion, as to pre-
* vent the like for the future, and for the prefent
* Eftablifhment of Peace of that our Kingdom, hold
* it
An. it. Car. II.
1660.
May.
312 The Parliamentary HIST ORY
it our Duty to God and the whole Proteftant In-
tereft, to command, publifh, and declare; and do,
by this our Proclamation, command, publifh, and
declare, That all Irijh Rebels, other than fuch as
by Articles have Liberty to refide in their own
Dominions, and have not fmce forfeited the Bene-
fit thereof, now remaining in, or which hereafter
(hall refort to England or Ireland, be forthwith
apprehended, and proceeded again/I as Rebels and
Traitors, according to Law. And that the Ad-
venturers and Soldiers, and other our Subjects in
Ireland,, their Heirs, Executors, Adminiftrators,
and Affigns, who, on the ift Day of January laft
paft, were in the Pofieirion of any the Manors,
Caftles, Houfes, Lands, Tenements, or Heredita-
ments of any the faid Irijh Rebels, (hall not be di-
fturbed in any fuch their Poffeffions, till we, by
Advice of the Lords and Commons now aiTembled
as aforeiaid, or fuch Parliament as we fhall call
in England or Ireland, fhall take further Order ;
or that they be legally evicted by due Courfe of
Law. And all our Juftices of the Peace, May-
ors, Sheriffs, and other Officers, both Civil and
Military, both in England and Ireland, are hereby
required to be aiding and aUifting in the Execution
of this our Proclamation, as often as Occafion fhall
Another for
keeping the
Peace, Vr,
CHARLES, by the Grace of God, of England,
Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of
the Faith, &c.
To all our loving Subjects of our ReaJjn of England
and Dominion of Wales, Greeting,
4 "\y^/>^ to'"'nS Notice of the Information of the
c V V Lords and Commons now affembled in
4 Parliament, that feveral Riots have been commit-
4 ted, and forcible Entries made upon the PofTeffions
* of divers of r-ur Subjects, as well Ecclefiaftical as
' Tempcial, who have been fettled in the laid Pof-
' fefilons by any unlawful or pretended Authority,
* and that without any Order of Parliament or legal
« Evic-
Of E N G L A N D. 313
Eviction, to the Difturbance of the Public Peace, An. ^^. Cai
whilft thefe Matters are under the Confideration 1660.
of our Parliament : We therefore, by the Advice v— ~ v—
of our Lords and Commons aforefaid, for the Pre- May<
vention of the like Riots, forcible Entries, and
Prefervation of the Public Peace of this our Realm,
do, by this our Proclamation, command, pubiifh,
and declare, That no Perfon or Perfons, Ecclefi-
aftical or Temporal, (hall prefume forcibly to en-
ter upon, or difturb, the faid Poflefiions, or any of
them, till our Parliament fhall take Order therein,
or an Eviction be had by due Courfe of Law. And
all our Juftices of the Peace, Mayors, Sheriffs, and
other Minifters of Juftice, and all other our loving
Subjects, ar'e hereby required to be aiding and af-
fifting in the Execution of this our Proclamation,
as often as Occafion ihall require, as they will
avoid our Royal Difpleafure.'
After the reading and agreeing to thefe two Pro-
clamations, in the Forenoon of this Day the Lords
adjourned to after Dinner, which was only to go
from their own Houfe, in Proceffion, to wait upon
the King at Whitehall. The Earl of Manchejier
•was appointed to fpeak what his Lordfhip thought
fit, to exprefs the Joy of that Houfe for his Majcfty's
fafe Return to his Throne.
The Houfe of Commons did nothing material in
the Forenoon of this Day, but reiblve, nem. con.
c That the Kinc;'s Majefty be pleafed to give Order,
that the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance be ad-
miniftered according to the Laws and Statutes of
this Realm now in Force.'
In the Afternoon they met again, read and com-
mitted a Bill for Confirmation of the Privileges of
Parliament, Magna Chart a ^ Stattttum de Talagio
non concedendo, the Petition of Rights, and other
Acts : After which we find the following Entry in
their Journals :
' The King's Majefty having, by Letter to this
Houfe, fignified his Pleafure to be at Whitehall this
Day, and the Lord Herbert having communicated
his
314 cft>e Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12. Car. Il.his Majefty's Intentions to give a Meeting to this
1660. Houfe there, the Houfe did, after their Adjourn-
U-Mf"*"' nient, walk on Foot from Wejlminfter to Whitehall^
y* divers Gentlemen going bifore Mr. Speaker j and,
after them, the Clerk, and Clerk-Afiiftant of this
Houfe ; and next, before Mr. Speaker, the Serjeant
at Arms attending this Houfe bearing his Mace,
(being all uncovered) the Members of this Houfe
following Mr. Speaker three in a Rank : And, be-
ing come to Whitehall^ they went up into the Ban-
quetting- Houfe > and there attended his Majefty's
coming to Whitehall ; which being about Seven of
the Clock, his Majefty, about Half an Hour after,
came into the Banquetting-Houfe, and there placed
himfelf in his Chair of State : Whereupon Mr.
Speaker, being before retired to the lower Part of
the Room, and the Way being clear to the Chair of
State, did, after his humble Obeifance, walk up to-
wards his Majefty; two Members of the Houfe go-
ing, one on one Hand, and another on the other
Hand of him, and divers other Members following
him, the Serjeant going immediately before him,
with the Mace turned downwards ; and, in his Way,
made two other Obeifances to his Majefty ; and,
coming up to his Majefty, he did addrefs himfelf
to him, in the Name of this Houfe, by an elo-
quent Oration, to which his Majefty gave a gracious
Anfvver : Which being performed, the Members of
this Houfe, then attending, kitted his Majefty's
Hand : And, after that, his Majefty retired out of
the Banquetting- Houfe ; and Mr. Speaker, and the
reft, thereupon departed.'
May 30. The two Houfes having congratulated
his Majefty on his Return to his Dominions, and the
Exercife of his Kingly Office, by the Mouths of
their diftincr. Speakers, they met again this Day to
proceed in National Affairs, which were now to be
carried on according to the antient Government of
tiiis Realm, by King, Lords, and Commons. The
Speech the Earl of Manchefter, Speaker of the Houfe
of Lords, till a Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper of
the
Of ENGLAND. 315
the Great Seal could be created, made to the King, An, n. Car. II.
is entered in the Proceedings of this Day, in their
"Journals. But that which Sir Harb'jttle Grim/ion^
Bart, delivered on the fame Occafion, has 1,0 farther
Notice taken of it in their Journals^ than what is
mentioned above. The King's feparate Anfwers to
them are entered in both "Journals ; and fince our
large Collection of old Pamphlets, Speeches, bV.
\vhich ftill holds out, furnifhes us alfo with Sir Har-
bottle Grimjion's learned Oration on this folemn
Occafion, we {hall here give them all together, and
leave them to the Reader's own Comment.
The Earl <?/ MANCHESTER'* Speech to his Majefly.
« rTlHAT this Day may prove happy to your The Speaker of
J_ Majefty, is the Hope, the Expectation, and the Houfe of
the earneft Defire of my Lords the Peers, whofe Lords Addrefs ta
Commands are upon me to make this humble Ten- J^,/, J^ at
der to your Majefty, of their loyal Joy for your
Majefty's fafe Return to your native Kingdom, and
for this happy Reftoration of your Majefty to your
Crown and Dignity, after fo long, and fo fevere, a
Suppreflion of your juft Right and Title.
4 I Ihall not reflect upon your Majefty's Suffer-
ings, which have been your People's Miferies ; yet
I cannot omit to fay, That as the Nation in gene-
ral, fo the Peers, with a more perfonal and particu-
lar Senfe, have felt the Stroke that cut the Gordian
Knot, which fattened your Majefty to your King-
dom, and your Kingdom to your Majefty.
4 For fince thole itrange and various Fluctuations
and Difcompofures in Government, fince thofe
horrid and unparallel'd Violations of all Order and
Juftice, Strangers have ruled over us, even with a
Rod of Iron : But now, with Satisfaction of Heart,
we own and fee your Majefty our native King, a
Son of the Wife, a Son of the Antient Kings, whofe
Hand holds forth a golden Scepter.
c Great King ! Give me Leave to fpeak the
Confidence, as well as the Defires, of the Peers of
England, Be you the powerful Defender of the
true PrQteftant Faith j the juft Afierter and Main-
tainer
316 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. iz. Car. Il.tainer of the Laws and Liberties of your Subjects ;
1660. fo fhall Judgment run down like a River, and Ju-
**-~-v—~> ftice like a mighty Stream ; and God, the God of
^' your Mercy, who hath fo miraculoufly preferved
you, will eftablifh your Throne in Righteoulhefs
and in Peace.
* Dread Sovereign ! I offer no flattering Titles,
but fpeak the Words of Truth. You are the De-
fire of Three Kingdoms, the Strength and the Stay
of the Tribes of the People, for the moderating of
Extremities, the reconciling of Differences, the
fatisfying of all Interefts, and for the reftoring of the
collapfed Honour of thefe Nations. Their Eyes are
toward your Majefty, their Tongues, with loud
Acclamations of Joy, fpealc the Thoughts and loyal
Intentions of their Hearts ; their Hands are lift up
to Heaven with Prayers and Praifes : And what
oral Triumph can equal this your Pomp and Glory.
' Long may your Majefty live and reign ; a Sup-
port to your Friends, a Terror to your Enemies, an
Honour to your Nation, and an Example to Kings
of Piety, Juftice, Prudence, and Power ; that this
prophetic Expreflion may be verified in your Ma-
jeily, King Charles the Second (ball be greater than
ever was the greateft of that Name.'
To which his Majefty made the following An-
fwer :
My Lord,
His Malay's 7 Am fo disordered by my "Journey, and with the
Anfwerl J- tf0;fe ft HI founding in my Ears, (which I canfefs
was pleafmg to me, becaufe it expreffed the AJfettions
tf my People) as I am unfit at the prefent to make fuch
a Reply as I defire \ yet thus much I jhall jay unto
you, That I take no greater Satisfaction to myfelf in
this my Change, than that I find my Heart really fet
to endeavour, by all Means, for the reftoring of this
Nation to their Freedom and Happinefs : And 1 hopey
by the Advice of my Parliament, to effect it. Of this
a Ifo you may be confident, that, next to the Honour of
God, from whom principally I Jhall ever own this Re-
paration
Of E N G L A N D. 317
/I oration to my Crown, I /ball ftudy the Welfare of my An. 12. Car. II,
People j and Jball not only be a true Defender of the 1660.
Faith, but a in ft A fierier of the Laws and Liberties ~~
ifmySubjeB,.
The SPEECH of Sir HARBOTTLE GRIMSTON, Bart.
Speaker of the Honourable Houfe of Commons^ to
the King's Mojl Excellent Majejly, delivered in
the Banquetting-Houfe, at Whitehall, May 29,
1660, the Members of that Houfe being then pre-
fent.
Moji gracious and dread Sovereign,
' TF all the Reafon and Eloquence that is difper-TheSpsaker of
JL fed in fo many feveral Heads and Tongues as'he Houfe °^
, , , ./ j» , , . . ° Commons Ad-
are in the whole World, were conveyed into mydrel-s to t^
Brain, and united in my Tongue, yet J mould want King.
Sufficiency to difcharge that great Tafk I am now
enjoined.
*• The Reftitution of your Majefty to the Exer-
cife of your juft and moft indubitable native Right
of Sovereignty, and the Deliverance of your People
from Bondage and Slavery, hath been wrought out
and brought to pafs, by a miraculous Way of Di-
vine Providence, beyond and above the Reach and
Comprehenfton of our Underftandings, and there-
fore to be admired ; impoflible to be exprefled.
' God hath been pleafed to train your Majefty
up in the School of Affliction, where you have learn'd
that excellent Leflbn of Patience fo well, and im-
proved it fo much for the Good of your People, that
we have all juft Caufe for ever to blefs God for it,
and we doubt not but your Name is regiftered in
the Records of Heaven, to have a Place in the
higheft Form amongft thofe glorious Martyrs of
whom it is reported, that, thro' Faith in Chriji and
Patience in their Sufferings, they converted their
very Tormenters, and conquered thofe barbarous
bloody Tyrants, under whom they then differed,
infomuch as they themfelves were many Times in-
forced to confefs and cry out, Sat eft vicijh Galliltsus^
they had their wV//?/, and that defervedly ; but your
Ma-
3 1 8 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. tz. Car. II. Majefty muft have a treble vi.ctfti^ for with the fame
1660. Weapons, Faith and Patience, you have overcome
*— -V"-' and conquered the Hearts and Affections of all your
y* People in Three great Nations, the Hearts and Af-
fections of all that are worthy the Name of good
Chiiftians, or reafonable Men.
' 'Tis God, and God alone, to whom be the Glo-
ry, that hath made your Majefty fo great a Con-
queror ; indeed your Conqueft is incomparable, no
Story can inftance the like, or furnifh us with an
Example to paralel it withal. 'Twas a Ufe and
Cudom amongft the Romans, when any of their
Commanders had done eminent Services abroad, at
their Returns, to honour them with Triumphs, and
riding through their Streets ; there they received the
Praifes and Apphufes of the People, with this In-
fcription upon their laurel Crowns, Vincenti dabitur,
But your Majefty's Victory is of another Nature ;
and as it differs much from theirs in the Quality of
it, fo your Triumph muft differ as much from theirs
in the Manner of it. They conquered Bodies, but
your Majefty hath conquered Souls ; they conquered
for the Honour and Good of themfelves, but your
Majefty hath conquered for the Honour and Good
of your People; they conquered with Force, but
your Majefty hath conquered with Faith ; they con-
quered with Power, but your Majefty hath con-
quered with Patience ; and therefore God himfelf
hath written your Motto, and infcribed it upon your
Royal Crown, Patienti dabitur. Their Triumphs
were in narrow Streets, but your Majefty's Triumph
muft be in iarc;e Hearts ; their Triumphs lafted but
for a Day, but your Majefty's Triumph muft laft
for all your Days, and after that to triumph in
Heaven to all Eternity.
c I have read of a Duke of Burgundy, who was
called Carclus dudax, the Hiftorian tellb us that his
Father was called Caroius Bonus : An Obfervator
hath this Note upon it, That Goodnefs doth ever
produce Boldnefs. Sir, you are the true Son of
fuch a good Father ; and fo long as you ferve our
good God, he, who is Goodnefs itfelf, will give
you
Of E N G L A N D. 319
you Boldnefs, a princely Virtue, and the beft Foil An. 12 Car.ll,
your Majefty can ufe, to fet out the true Luftre of all l66°-
your other moft eminent and lovely Graces. V""-M'~~ ''
' Moft Royal Sovereign, I have yet a few Words
more, and to doubt your Patience, who is the Mir-
ror of Patience, were to commit a Crime unpardon-
able and fit to be excepted out of that A6t of Obli-
vion, which your Majefty hath fo gracioufly tendered
unto your People ; therefore, with an humble Con-
fidence, I fhall prefume to acquaint your Majefty,
that I have it further in Command to prefent you,
at this Time, with a Petition of Right, and humbly,
upon my bended Knees, to beg your Royal Afient
thereunto. ;Sir, it hath already parTed two great
Houfes, Heaven and Earth, and I have Vox Populi^
and Vox Dei, to warrant this bold Demand. It is,
That your Majefty would be pleafed to remove your
Throne of State, and to fet it up in the Hearts of
your People ; and as you are defervedly the King of
Hearts, there to receive from your People a Crown
of Hearts. Sir, this Crown hath three excellent
and rare Properties, 'tis a fweet Crown, 'tis a faft
Crown, and 'tis a lafting Crown ; 'tis a fweet Crown,
for 'tis perfumed with nothing but the Incenfe of
Prayers and Praifes ; 'tis a faft Crown, for 'tis let upon
your Royal Head, by him who only hath the Power
of Hearts, the King of Kings ; and 'tis a lafting
Crown, your Majefty can never wear it out, for the
longer you wear this Crown, it will be the better for
the wearing; and it is the hearty Defires, and moft
earneft Prayers of all your loyal, loving, and faithful
Subjects, that you may never change that Crown till
you change it for a better, a Crown of eternal Glory
in the higheft Heavens; and the Lord fay Amen?
To this laft Harangue the King returned the fol-
lowing Anfwer :
/ Shall not trouble you with many IVords^ for really The King's An-
•^ I am fo weary that I am fcarce able to /peak : fwsr>
But I defire you may know thus much^ That whatfo-
ever may concern the Good of this People, the Defence
and
320 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An, 12. Cu.Il.and Confirmation of your Laws > and the Ejlablifi*
1660. ment Of yOUr Religion, I Jhall be as ready to grant as
^"*^~ r you Jhall be to ajk : And I Jhall Jludy nothing more
than to make them as happy as myfelf.
But, before we go on with the Proceedings of
both Houfes of Parliament, we mall revert a little,
to give fome Account of the King's Landing at
Dover, and the public Entry he afterwards made
into his City of London, and to that Palace to which
he was then fo great a Stranger. We are confcious
this Affair has been amply related by moft or all of
our general Hiftorians ; but as we fhall copy none
of them, and give one quite different, from an Eye
and an Ear-Witnefs of all thele glorious Works,
\ve may more readily be excufed for the Recital.
The Author we fhall quote from is Dr. Gumble^
who wrote the Li'e of General Monke, as has been
mentioned, and who accompanied his Mafter down
to Dover, to meet and receive the King on his
Landing.
Dr. Gamble's ' That on Saturday, May 26, his Majefty landed
Account of the at the Beach on Dover Pier, with the Dukes of
£iLl»!ry Tork and Gloucefter, and many other Noblemen and
Gentlemen : That the General received him with
becoming Duty, but his Majefty embraced him with
an Affedtion fo absolutely entire and vehement, as.
higher could not be expreffed from a Prince to a
Subject ; he embraced and killed him. Our Author
lays he had the Honour to be at the General's Back,
when this happened, and was the third Per ion that
kifled the Hem of hisMajefty's Garments after he fet
Foot in England: That he let himfelf to obferve his
Majefty's Countenance on his firft Landing, where
he did lee a Mixture of other Paffions beiidesjoy in
his Face. Certainly, adds this Author, he had the
Remembrance of the cruel Perfections of both his.
Father and himlelf, befides the Numbers of People
fhouting. the Great Guns from the Ships in the
Road, and from the Caftle, thundering with all the
Expreffions of Glory that were poflible : Thefe,
with a Reflection of Things paft not many Years.
before,
Of E N G L A N D. 321
before, might as well amaze as rejoice his Royal An- "-Car. II.
Heart. U^TX^I
We fhall not trace this Author any further in the M
King's Journey from Dover to London^ where he fays
the King prefled to be, that he might enter his Capital
on the 29th of Moy^ the Day of his Birth ; on which
Day, being got as near as alackheath^ he found the
Army drawn up, and there exprefled their dutiful
Allegiance in an humble Addrefs, offering to facri-
fice their Lives, or whatfoever could be more dear
to them, for his Service, againft whatfoever Oppo-
fers; and would (hew their Obedience better in their
Actions than in Words. This Sight did pleafe his
Majefty very much, and he took a full View of
them. They were as brave Troops as the World
could {hew, appearing to be Soldiers well difci-
plined, and feemed to be Men of one Age and one
Mind. His Majefty did like rather to have them
loyal Subjects, as they now protefted, than (what
fome of them had been formerly) violent Enemies.
Thefe Men had bought Wit at the Hazard of their
Souls, as well as by the Lofs of fome Blood, and
now refolved Loyalty into their Nature and Princi-'
pies, and, I hope, (fays our Author) keep this Re-
iblution to this Day.
' At St. George's Fields the Lord Mayor and Al-
dermen had pitched a glorious Tent, and provided a
fumptuous Collation, and there, upon their Knees,
did their Duties ; and the Lord Mayor delivered his
Sword, and received it again. After a {hort Stay
his Majefty haftened to fee Whitehall^ being glutted
with the Ceremonies of the Day. Princes need
their Solitudes and Retirements, and certainly he
muft be wife to a Miracle, that is never alone and
always himfelf.
' All the Streets were richly adorned with Tape -
ftry, the Conduits flowing with the richeft Wines,
every Window filled with Numbers of Spectators,
and upon Scaffolds built for that Purpofe, and all
other Places of Conveniency. There were rank'd,
in good Order, the Trained Band Forces on the 0110
VOL. XXII, X Sids
322 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12. Car. II. Side of the Streets, and the feveral Companies in
l66°' their Liveries on the other. From Temple-Bar to
**""^~~>"*' Whitehall the Trained Bands of Wefiminjler and
the Parts adjacent on one Side, and fome Companies
of the Ai my on the other, to whom was joined a
Company of the late King's Officers, commanded
by Sir 'John StoweL This was one of the pleafanteft
Sights that ever England beheld, to fee a good Prince
and an obedient People driving who fhould exceed
in Love and Affection. May there never be other
Contention between them.
' The Procefiion was led by Major -General
Brown, who had a Troop of 300, all in Cloth of
Silver Doublets; then followed 1200 in Velvet
Coats, with Footmen in Purple Liveries attend-
ing them ; then another Troop, in Buff Coats,
led by Sir John Robinfon, with Sleeves of Cloth
of Silver, and very rich green Scarfs : After thefe
a Troop of 150, with blue Liveries, laced with
Silver Lace, with fix Trumpeters and feven Foot-
men in Sea-green and Silver. Then a Troop
of 220, with 30 Footmen in grey and Silver Live-
ries, and four Trumpeters richly cloathed; then an-
other Troop of 105, with grey Liveries, and fix
Trumpets; and another of 70, with five Trumpets.
Then three Troops more, two of 300, and one of
100, all richly habited and bravely mounted ; after
thefe came two Trumpets with his Majefty's Arms;
the Sheriffs Men in red Cloaks, richly laced with
Silver Lace, to the Number of 80, with Pikes in
their Hands. Then followed 600 of the feveral
Companies of London, on Horfeback, in black Vel-
vet Coats with Gold Chains, each Company having
Footmen in rich Liveries attending.
' After thefe came a Kettle-Drum, five Trum-
pets, three Streamers, and many rich red Liveries
with Silver Lace : After thefe 12 Minifters, and
then another Kettle-Drum and four Trumpets, with
his Majefty's Life-Guard of Horfe, commanded by
the Lord Gerrard. Then three Trumpets in rich
Coats and Sattin Doublets, and the City Marfhal
with
Of E N G L A N D. 323
with eight Footmen in Fren.b Green, trimm'd with An i«. Car. II.
Crimfon and White, the City Waits, and all the l66o<
City Officers in Order; then the two Sheriffs, and ' "^
all the Aldermen in their Scarlet Gowns and rich
Trappings, with Footmen in Liveries, red Coats
Jaced with Silver and Cloth of Gold and Silver, the
Heralds and Maces in rich Coats ; then the Lord
Mayor carrying the Sword bare, and next to him
the Duke of Buckingham and the General, and then
the King's Majefty betwixt the Dukes of York and
Gloucefter ; after which followed a great Troop of his
Majefty's Servants; then followed a Troop of Horfe
with white Colours; then the General's Life-Guard,
commanded by Sir Philip Howard; wherein, befide
the eftablifhed Number, rode feveral Noble Perfons;
in the firft Rank were fuch as had 1 00,000 /. per Ann.
of Inheritance among them ; after them five Regi-
ments of the Army Horfe, led by Col. Knight ; and
then two Troops of Noblemen and Gentlemen to
clofe the Procelfion.'
Having now brought our Parliamentary Inqui- A final! Digref-
ries to this happy Crifis of Time, when King, fion concerning
T , , f^ ' 11 ii /i j & this Revolution.
Lords, and Commons, were all equally reirored to
their antient and juft Rights of Government in
this Nation : The King to his hereditary Throne,
the Peers alfo to their hereditary Seats in Parliament,
and the Houfe of Commons, confifting of the true
Reprefentatives of the People, to their Freedom of
Speaking and Voting, without Danger of being
turned out, gutted, or garbled, by the Power of a
Standing Army, we fhall here leave them for a
Time, in order to make a fhort Digreffion from the
Courfe of this Hiftory, to trace out the dark and in-
tricate Steps which led to this furprizing Revolu-
tion.
We think it unneceflary to trouble the Readers
with recapitulating any Matters we have already
given, or harrafling ourfelves, after fo long and
tirefome a Journey, with needlefs Repetitions or
Comments, on Fads which we rather chufe to
X 2 leave
324 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. ia. Car. H. leave to their own Judgment. Yet, fince this won-
1660. derful Revolution was feemingly brought about by
^-—"v"1 "•*' the unen ing Hand of Providence alone, Man being
May* only the Agent, whofe Ways were made fmooth and
eafy to him, by many unforefeen and unthought-of
Accidents, and at laft even compelled, as it were, to
act what he did ; we (hall juft touch upon fome of
thefe Matters, in order to fhew, that neither the
bammed King, nor his fmall Court abroad, nor his
moft fanguine Friends and Well-wifhers at home,
could forefee this Change, till within a very few
Weeks before it a£lually happened.
It has been the Opinion of fome, and Dr. Price
has endeavoured to inculcate it throughout his {hort
Hiftory of the Restoration, that General Monke
had a real Defi^n in his Head, to reftore the King
and Royal Family, even before he fet out with his
Army from Scotland. In the Collection of Monke's
Letters, &c. before quoted, there is yet one we have
not mentioned from the General to the King, and
is dated from Edinburgh , December 30, 1659. In
this'he gives his Majefty all imaginable Afturances
of his fteady Attachment to his Intereft, and urges
fome Stipulations neceffary to ground his Reftora-
tion upon. We make no Doubt but this Letter is
fpurious, and put at the Head of the reft, in order to
fnew what a double, deceitful Part the General had
acted in the whole Affair. For, firft, the General
was not ?.t Edinburgh, but with his Army at Cold"
Jlrcam, on the Day this Letter is dated ; and he paf-
fed the Tweed two Days after, in his March for
England : And no Author, that we know of, men-
tions any fuch Letter being fent. But the ftrongeft
Reafons of all are the great Uncertainty of Monkeys
Deiigns, which the King and his Court had much
nearer to his open Declaration for his Majefty's Inte-
reft, and the Support of the Royal Caufe. To prove
this, we {hall give fome {hort Abftradts from fome
Letters, printed in the Appendix to the Life of Dr.
John Barwick, once Dean of St. Paul's, London ;
which Letters were all wrote by the King himfelf,
or
Of E N G L A N D. 325
or the Lord Chancellor Hyde^ not many Months, An. 12. Car. IF.
or even Weeks, before the Reiteration. a
In one of thefe Letters from the latter, dated *""" "^""""""'^
Brujftls, January 12, 1660, N. S. and indorfed,
Received the fame Date, O. S. b are thefe Expref-
fions : ' I fend you herewith two Letters from the
' King, to your two Friends, which is all that his
4 Majefty can think of, in order to Monke. Since
' he knows there is a Letter for him from the King,
' and hath no Mind to receive it, he would have the
' fame Shynefs or Perverfenefs, if another was fent,
' or any Meflenger employed to him. The Intereft
* for which he declares, feems not worth fuch an
' Ensagement; and if his Conjunction with the Scots
<• be real, that Intereft cannot be fupported by him.
* Yet it is ftrange, he nor any of his Friends (hould
* let the King know of their Purpofes, if, in Truth,
* he hath any good Purpofes towards his Service.
' The whole Dependence the King hath of any
* Good from him, is from your Negotiation ; and
* therefore the Service cannot be enough valued.' In
another Letter from the Chancellor, dated alfo from
Brujfeh, March 8, N. S. and indorfed, Received
March 6, he exprefles himfelf thusc : ' As Monkeys
* Proceeding hath been very myfterious throughout,
* fo nothing is more wonderful than the Secrefy of
* all that hath been tranfacled in Scotland ; of all
* which Intrigues the King knows no more, than
* he doth of his [Monke's] prefent Intentions ; nor
* hath any Exprefs been difpatched from Scotland .
1 to the King, to give him any Account of what
' they demanded, or the other prornifed. Thcre-
* fore the King defues you would ufe the beft
* Means you can, to inform yourfelf of all the Par-
4 ticulars.' Again, in the fame Letter, as a Poft-
fcript : 4 This hath been written thefe two Days,
* and I meant not to have made any Additions, but
* the Exprefs is juft now arrived with the great
X 3 News,
a Vita Johannes Barwick, 5. T. P. &c. Cut adjlcitur Affendix
Epiftolarum, tarn ab Rege Carolo fecando, qitam a fuo CanccUario exu-
lt) afibus ; aliarumque Cbartarum ad candcm Hificriam perunentium.
fimnia ab ipfis Autographis nunc prirr.um Edita, Gft, Lord, 1721.
* Lit, N°, 12. c Lit, NO. 29.
i66o.
May.
326 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 14. Car. II. News, who likewife brings your Letter of the
2 1 ft, which gives the King great Hope that Monke
is better difpofed and refolved than he yet avows :
However, the Bufmefs is in a good Way, and he
will, by Degrees, be brought to it, it he had not
rather others mould have the Glory of fuch an
Action than himfelf. But, methinks, this calling
another Parliament is the fartheft Way about,
and I believe not eafy to be pra&ifed.'
To come ftill nearer to the Time, the King and
his fmall Council had very certain Intelligence of his
being recalled, we meet with another Letter d, in
the fame Appendix, dated from Breda, April 1 6,
1660, N. S. indorfed, Received on tbejameDatc, 0. S.
we have thefe Words : ' The Proipect of your Af-
' fairs looks very well towards us ; and lam per-
4 funded that Monke will in the End appear to have
* proceeded like a fober Man ; and aflure yourfelf
' your Friend cannot be without a very good Ac-
* knowled«;ement, for contributing much towards
' bringing him to that Temper; and whatever Jea-
* loufies there be among themfelves, between the
* Civil and Martial Counfellors, I do not find there
4 is any of the laft Claffis, by whom Monke is like
* to be advifed, or who are like to be of fo much
' Service in the Army, as your two Friends are :
* And therefore I pray continue your Interpofition
' with them, with all the Encouragements that can
* be defireil from the King, of which they may be
* mod confident. And here I muft not omit to
* tell you, that fome Perfons, of unqueftionable Af-
' fections, and of great Quality, have fent lately to
* the King, to make Propofitions to him, of enga-
* ging Col, Clobery, as a Perfon moft able to do him
* Service with the General. They not imagining
4 that we have any Knowledge of, or Communica-
* tion with, him; nor do we pretend to it, but feem
4 to decline writing fuch Letters as they define, out
4 of an Apprehenfion that he is of the Republican
' P^rty, and not to be wrought upon. This we
* think very necefiary that you fliould know, and it
4 may
d Lit, NO, 3j,
Of E N G L A N D. 327
6 may be he [Monke] himfelf, left it fhould be inti- An. 12. Car. n.
* mated to him, that there is an ill Opinion of him
« here, which fometimes falls out by the Weaknefs
6 of our Friends ; when, to avoid fome unfeafonable
' Overtures, or a more unfeafonable Difcovery, we
* feem to have Prejudice towards thofe, in whom we
' have moft Confidence/
This laft Letter from Chancellor Hyde muft
have been wrote after the General's Meflage, by Sir
John Grenville^ had been delivered to the King ;
and yet the Beginning of it implies rather a Diffi-
dence than an abfolute Confidence in him. The
Parliament was not yet met, and what the General
and they might do on the opening it, was (till un-
certain ; for the Chancellor, in a former Quota-
tion, plainly intimated, that he did not like fuch
round-about Proceedings, the Name of Parliament
not yet founding well in the Ears of the King, or
any of his Party. And, if the General had not
found, by many AddreiTes made to him from differ-
ent Counties, in his March up to London, that the
Hearts of the People were changed as one Man, to
recall their injured Monarch, 'tis probable he might
have played a different Game, and fet up himfelf
inftead of the Lord's Anointed. But Vox Populi
was certainly, at this Time, Vox Dei ; though
others will have it, that this wonderful Change was
brought about by common Means ; that thofe very
People who had murdered the Father and baniihed
his Progeny, fhould join fo unanimoufly to recall
them again, and place them upon the Throne ; that
this Revolution mould be rather afcribed to the late
bad Government of the Republic ; to the known
Mutability and wavering Temper of the Englijh
Nation, who are never long pleafed with their Ru-
lers, be they ever fo juft and righteous j and lailly,
to Monkis Fears, that the letting up himfelf as ano-
ther Cromwell^ would not hold ; and becaufe he
durft not be the firft, make fure of being the fecond
Man in the Kingdom ; fome of thefe Opinions, we
lay,
328 Tie Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12. Car. II. fay, maybe right; but we {hall not trouble our-
1660. felves to contradict any of them. But
There is yet another Opinion to be treated of,
which prevails amongft our Hiftorians, and many
others, That the Nation was fo far infatuated with
the Return of their King, that they would have made
him abfolute, had not his natural Indolence prevented
him from either pufliing for it, or even defiring of
it b. Indeed, the many and various Kinds of Miferies
which the Nation had fuffered, under their differ-
ent Governors, for the lafl twelve Years, might
make them rather chufe to put an abfolute Power
into the Hands of one of the Royal Line, than be
ruled, as they had been, with a Rod of Iron, by
their own Fellow Subjects. The Government of
thefe Nations had been tried, in various Shapes,
ever fince the Death of the late King, and all found
unftable. It was firft thrown into a Commonwealth ;
under Oliver > a defpotic Tyranny ; under Richard,
nothing at all ; and under the Council of State, a
Heap of Changes and Confufions. So that the
People, being weary of thefe Diftra&ions, readily
agreed to recall their lawful Sovereign, and fubmit to
their antient Form of Government. Notwithftand-
ing all thefe Sufferings, to mew there was no fuch
Intention in the People, (if we may allow this Con-
vention to be the true Reprefentative of them) to
give up their Liberties, we need do no more
than refer to the Titles of the Bills, which they
had prepared for the King to pafs on his Arrival,
and which were all made Laws foon after ; except
one, For taking away the Courts of Wards and Li-
veries, which the Commons dropp'd of themfelves,
as bearing too hard on the Royal Prerogative. So
the King was reftored to the Exercife of his Regal
Power, butted and bounded in the fame Manner as
his Father found it, at his Acceflion to the Crown.
To conclude this Deviation from the general
Hiftory. In all the Kingdoms and Governments
upon
* Bifliop Barntt fays the whole Nation was drunk and mad for
three Years toother after it, His wn Timer.
Of E N G L A N D. 329
upon Earth there have been Revolutions, though we An. 12. Car. II.
believe none brought about without fome Bloodfhed, l66o>
as this before us was. The natural Confequences ^""TJ"'"""11^
of Things, when once they deviate from the Right,
will, at laft, revolve into their priftine State again :
And, as a Spanijh Author, tho' a Jefuit, juftly ob-
ferves, who, fpeaking of Herefies in the Church,
fays, Omnis Herefis cum ad Adtheifmum dciapfa eft^
per Sapientem Prophetam in Veritatis Vianf reduci-
iur : Habent enim Hterefes Periodos fuos, ad Mo-
dum Rerum publicarum ; ques a Regibus in Tyran-
nidem, a Tyrannide in Statum Optirnatium, et inde
in Oligarcbiam, atque, tandem, in Demotratiam ; ett
in Finet rur/us, in Statum REGIUM revolvuntur.*
But now to return to our Hiftory.
After all the formal Greetings and Congratula-
tions on this happy Occafion were over, both Houfes
went upon the Bufmefs of the Nation, and princi-
pally to regulate all th ;fe Matters that had gone
wrong during fo long an Ufurpation.
May
a Thomas Campar.ella dc Monarcbla Hifp. C. 30. quoted by W~.
Prynne.
in a Copper-Plate Print 4/9. of this Time, in our Collection, in-
tituled, An Account of the many Revolutions in the eleven Years from
the Murder of the Royal Martyr to the Re/ioraticn of the Right Heir,
is the Representation of a Snake with its Tail in its Mouth, on which
is engraved, The Old Serpent, or Spirit of Rejtftance j within the Circle
of which is,
1. Rump.
2. Oliver and bis Officers, April 20, 1653.
3. Council of State. — — — 30.
4. Barebone'j Parliament, July 4.
5. Oliver and his Officers, fccond Time, December 12.
6. Oliver Protestor, - 16.
7. Richard Protetfor, September 3, 1658.
8. Rump, fecond Time, May 6, 1659.
9. Walhngford-Hotife Junto initbi OAnW
Lambert and Fieetwocd. 5
10. Council of Ten Men, — . — 19.
n. Commit eee of Safety • a 6.
14. Rump, tbirdTime, December 26.
13. Secluded Members and Rump, February 21, 1659-60,
14. Council of State, March 1 6.
15. Tbe Devil leaves the Roundheads /'/£>' Lurcb,
Without the Circle.
36. Tbe Re/lor in f Parliament.
J7. Tbe RESTORATION.
330 Tfie Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12. Car. II. May 30. The Earl of Manchejier acquainted the
1660. Houfe of Lords, that the Dukes of York and Glou-
v""""v"< """^ cefter commanded him to returnThanks to the Houfe,
ay> for their Lordfliips Civility Yefterday to them ; and
Parliamentary to %n'fy their Defire to come and fit in that Houfe,
Proceedings"." as Members, and that Places might be provided for
them. Hereupon a Committee of Lords was ap-
pointed to attend his Majefty, and to acquaint him,
That there being no Precedent which fhews where
their proper Places are in the Houfe, they defire his
Majefty will pleafe to confult with <uch Perfons as he
thinks fit, and then determine on the Places himfelf.
Soon after the Earl of Northumberland reported,
That the Lords Committees had waited on his
Majeft , concerning the Seats where the Dukes of
York and Gloucejhr were to fit in Parliament, and
that his Majefty faid, He conceived that the Seat on
the Right Hand of the State, where the King of Scots
antiently ufed to fit, will be of no more Ufe, now
that the Title is included in his Majefty ; and faid
he himfelf, at the Parliament at Oxford, fat in that
Seat. Therefore he defired that Place might be re-
ferved for a Prince of Wales ; and that the Seats of
the Left Hand the State might be fitted up for his
Brothers die Dukes of York and Gloucejhr ; which
the Houfe gave Direction for accordingly.
The Commons {hewed or! their Loyalty this
Day, by oidering a Bill to be prepared and brought
in, For keeping a perpetual Anniverfary, as a Day
of Thankfgiving to God, for the great Bleffing and
Mercy he had been gracioufly pleafed to vouchfafe
to the People of r.>efe Kingdoms, after their manifold
and grievous Sufferings, in the Reftoration of his
Majefty, with Safety, to his People and Kingdoms.
And '.hat the Twenty-ninth of May, in every Year,
being the Birth Day of his Sacred Majefty, and the
Day of his Majefty's Return to his Parliament,
fhould le yearly let apart for that Purpofe.
' Refolved alfo, That the Lords be defired to join
with this Houfe, in beleeching the King's Majefty
to appoint a Day, to be fet apart for public Thankf-
giving to God, throughout this Realm, for the great
Blef-
Of E N G L A N D, 331
Bleffing and Mercy God hath vouchfafed to theieAn. 12 Car. II.
Kingdoms, in the happy Reiteration of his Majefty.'
The Commons next refolved themfelves into a U"Or"""""'
grand Committee, to confider of Ways to raife Mo-
ney; and, after fome Time fpent therein, they agreed
to appoint a Sub -Committee, and that no Perfon
fhould have a Vote in it that had received any public
Money, or was liable to be brought to Account.
The Houfe of Lords read a third Time an AcT: for
Continuance of Procefs in all judicial Proceedings,
pafled, and fent it down to the Commons. The next
Day that Houfe fent a MeiTage to the Lords, defiring
their Concurrence in a Petition to his Majefty, to
give Leave that a folemn Day of Thankfgiving
ftiould be appointed, to give Thanks for God's great
Mercy, in the laft great Revolution of Affairs, for
bringing his Majefty fafe to his own Dominions ;
which was read, and agreed to unanimoufly. The
Lords alfo ordered, l That his Majefty be moved
that he would be pleafed that an A& may be pafled
for the keeping the agth of May as an Holy-Day
and Thanfgiving, in Commemoration of his Maje-
fty's happy Return into this Kingdom, and the Day
of his Majefty's Nativity.' Their Speaker, the Earl
of Manchefter* to prefent it.
The Earl of Btrk/hire acquainted the Houfe,
That he was commanded by his Majefty to fignify
his Defire to this Houfe, that thofe who were cre-
ated Peers by Patent, by his late Majefty at Oxford,
fhould fit in the Houfe. On which the Lords or-
dered the fame Lord to attend the King, and ac-
quaint him, That Matters of Honour did belong to
his Majefty, and this Houfe did acquiefce in his
Pleafure. And agreed, That the Order formerly
pafled, for excluding any Lords made at Oxford,
from fitting in the Houfe, fhould be cancelled, nul-
led, and made void; and that the Lords Sub-Com-
mittees for Privileges, &c. fhould fee this done and^
executed accordingly. Alfo, that the faid Lords
fhould meet to confider of placing the Seats and
P'orms of the Houfe, for making more Room for
the Peers. — And now, at this Period, we think it
pif
332 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. I*. Car. II. proper to introduce a Lift, or Catalogue, of the
^J^^^ Peers of England, as they fat in this Convention
Ma Parliament, according to their Precedence and Su-
periority, from a printed Lift of that Time.
DUKES EARLS.
Of the Blood Royal. The firft three take Place
James Duke of York and ln refPe& of their Of-
Albany^ Lord High
Admiral of England.
Rupert Duke of Cumber-
land.
A Lift of the
Peers of Parlia
ment.
Thefe two take Place in
refpect of their Offices.
Edward Earl of Claren-
don^ Lord Chancellor
of England.
Thomas Earl of South-
ampton, Lord Treafu-
rer of England.
DUKES.
Thomas Howard, Duke
of Norfolk.
William Seymour, Duke
of Somerset.
George Vi iliers, Duke of
Buckingham.
Charles Stuart, Duke of
Richmond.
George Monke, Duke of
Albemarle.
MAR QJJ I S S E S.
fices.
Montagu Bertie, Earl of
Lindfay, Lord High
Chamberlain of Eng-
land.
James Butler, Earl of
Brecknock, Lord Stew-
ard of his Majefty's
Houflicld.
Edward Montagu, Earl
of Manchejler, Lord
Chamberlain of his
Majefty's Houfhold.
Auberry Fere, Earl of Ox-
ford.
Algernon Percy, Earl of
Northumberland.
Francis Talbot, Earl of
Shrew/bury,
Grey, Earl of Kent.
Infra Mtat. .
Charles Stanley, Earl of
Derby..
John Manners, Earl of
Rutland.
Ha/iings, Earl of
Huntingdon. Inf. Mt.
John Paulet, Marquis of Thomas Wriothjlcy, Earl
Winchejler.
Edward Somerfet, Mar-
quis of Worcejler.
jyilliam Cavendijh, Mar-
quis of Newcajlle.
Henry Pierepoint, Mar-
quis of Dorchejhr.
of Sottthfi?nptcn.
William Ru/el, Earl of
Bedford.
Philip Herbert, Earl of
Pembroke and Mont-
'« Cm/, Earl of Exeter.
Ihtophilus
Of E N G
Theophilus Clinton, Earl
of Lincoln.
Charles Howard, Earl of
Nottingham.
James Howard, Earl of
Suffolk.
Richard Sackville, Earl
of Dorfet.
William Cecil, Earl of
Sail/bury.
John Egerton, Earl of
Bridgewater.
Robert Sydney, Earl of
Leicejier.
James Compton, Earl of
Northampton.
Charles Rich, Earl of
Warwick,
William Cavendi/h, Earl
of Devon.
Eafil Fielding, Earl of
Denbigh.
George Digby, Earl of
Brijlol.
Lionel Cranfield, Earl of
Middlefex.
Henry Rich, Ezrl of Hol-
land.
JohnHolIis9Ezr\ of Clare.
Oliver St. John, Earl of
Bolingbroke.
Mildmay Fane, Earl of
Wejlmoreland.
Edward Montagu, Earl
of Manchejler.
Thomas Howard, Earl of
Berkjhire.
Thomas Wentworth, Earl
of Cleveland.
Edward Sheffield, Earl of
jfyfufaravt,
May.
LAND. 333
Henry Carey, Earl of An, iz. Car. H.
Monmouth. l66°'
James Leigh, Earl of
Marlborough.
Tho. Savage, Earl Rivers.
Nicholas Knollis, Earl of
Banbury.
Henry Carey, Earl of Do-
ver.
Henry Mordaunt, Earl of
Peterborough.
Henry Gray, Earl of
Stamford.
Heneage Finch, Earl of
Winchelfea.
Charles Dormer, Earl of
Carnarvon.
Mountjoy Blunt, Earl of
Newport.
Philip Stanhope, Earl of
Chejlerfield.
John Tufton, Earl of
Thanet.
Jerome Wejlon, Earl of
Portland.
William Wentworth, Earl
of Stratford.
Robert Spencer, Earl of
Sunderland.
James Savile, Earl of
SuJJex.
George Goring, Earl of
Norwich.
Nicholas Leak, Earl of
Scarf dale.
Wtlmot, Earl of
RochrJIer. Inf. Mtat.
Henry Germain, Earl of
St. Albans.
Edward Montagu, Earl
of Sandwich.
334 *&* Parliamentary His TOR r
1660
May.
An. 12. Car. II. "James Butler ; Earl of
Brecknock.
Edward Hyde, Earl of
Clarendon.
Arthur Capel, Earl of
E/tx.
Thomas Brudenell, Earl
of Cardigan.
Arthur Annejley, Earl of
Angkfey.
John Grenvllle, Earl of
Bath.
Charles Howard, Earl of
Canifle.
VISCOUNTS.
Leicejler Devereux^ Vif-
count Hereford.
Francis Brown, Vifcount
Montagu.
William Fiennes, Vifcount
Say and Sele.
Edw. Conway, Vifcount
Conway.
IZaptijl Noel, Vifcount
Cambden.
William Howard, Vif-
count Stafford.
Thomas Bellajis, Vifcount
Fauconberg,
Mor daunt.
BARONS.
John Nevil> Lord Aber-
gavenny.
James Toucbet, Lord
Dudley.
Charles Wejl^ Lord De-
laiuar.
George Berkley, Lord
Berkley.
Thomas Parker, Lord
Mor ley and Mount-
Eagle.
Francis Leonard, Lord
D acres.
Conyers D'Arcy, Lord
D'Arcy.
William Stourton, Lord
Stourton.
William Lord Sandys de
la Vine.
Edw. Vaux, Lord Vaux.
Thomas Windjor, Lord
I'Sindfor.
Thomas (f^entworth^ Lord
Wentworth.
Wingfield Cromwell, Lord
Cromwell.
George Eure, Lord Eure.
Philip Wharton, Lord
Wharton.
Francis Willoughby, Lord
Willougkby of Par bam.
Will. Paget, Lord Paget.
Dudley North, Lord
North.
William Bruges, Lord
Chandois.
John Carey, Lord Hunf-
den.
William Peters,
Peters.
Dutton Gerrard,
Gerrard.
Charles Stanhope,
Stanhope.
Henry Arundel,
Arundel, o
Chrijlopher Roper, Lord
Tenham.
Foulke Grevil, Lord
Brook.
Ed-
Lord
Lord
Lord
Lord
Of E N G L A N D. 335
Edward Montagu, Lord Richard Vaughan, LordAn.ii.Car.il.
Montagu, of Bough- Vaughan.
ton. Charles Smith, Lord
Charles Lord Howard, of rington.
Charleton. William Widdrington,
William Grey, Lord GVvy, Lord Widdrington.
oiWerk. Humble Ward, Lord
y<?/;« Roberts, Lord 22 0- /Ffln/.
^r/j. Thomas Lord Colepeper.
William Craven, Lord ^w<: ^/?/^y, Lord y^?-
Craven. ley.
John Lovelace p,Lord Love- Richard Boyle, Lord
lace. Clifford.
John Paulet, Lord Paulet John Lucas, Lord Lu-
fFilliam Maynard, Lord cas.
Maynard. 'John Bellafis, Lord Bel-
Thomas Coventry, Lord lafis.
Coventry. Lewis Watfon, Lord
Edward Lord Howard, Rockingham.
of EJkricke. Charles Gerrard, Lord
Warwick Mohun, Lord Gerrard, of Brandon.
Mohun. Robert Lord Sutton, of
William Botelar, Lord Lexington.
Botelar. Charles Kirkhoven, Lord
P^Tvy Herbert, Lord Wooton*
Powis. Marmaduke Langdale,
Ed. Herbert, Lord /&r- Lord Langdale.
bert, of Cher bury. William Crofts, Lord
Francis Seymour, Lord Crofts.
Seymour. J°hn Berkley, Lord
Thomas Bruce, Lord Berkley.
Bruce. Denzil Holies, Lord
Francis Newport, Lord Holies, of Eyfield.
Newport. Frederick Cornwallis,
Tho. Leigh, Lord Leigh, Lord Cornwallis.
of Stone-Leigh. George Booth, Lord Z)^-
ChriJlopherHatton, Lord lamer e.
Hatton. Horatio Townjhend, Lord
Henry Hajlings, Lord Townjhend.
Loughborough. Anthony AJhley Cooper,
Richard Byron, Lord Lord AJhley.
Byrtn. John Crewe, Lord Crewe.
The
336 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. i*. Car. 1 1. The Addrefs to the King from the Commons,
1660. and afterwards agreed to by the Lords, for a Day
v— • -v— — ' of Thankfgiving, is entered at the End of this
June. J)ay's Proceedings in thefe Words :
To the King's Mojl Excellent Majejtyt &c.
Humbly fiewetb,
A Petition of ' rT^ HAT fuch is the ineftimable Bleffing of
Parliament for a c your Majefty's Reftoration to your Royal
Thank&iving, < Throne, which at once hath put a Period to the
* Calamities of Three Kingdoms, and to all the Sor-
' rows and Sufferings of your Royal Perfon and Fa-
' mily, that we cannot but account it as an Inftance
' into that State of Joy and Happinefs, which obli-
* geth all your Subjects to render an everlafting
' Tribute of Praife and Thankfgiving to Almighty
' God, for thofe glorious Mercies which he hath
' vouchfaied to his afflicted People.
4 And to the end that fome folemn Time may be
* fet apart, for the public Performance of this Duty,
' and that all your Majefty's Subjects, in England
* and in f^ales^ and the Town of Berwick upon
* Tweed, who equally fhare in the Joy of this Deli-
' verance, may be united in thefe Devotions which
* are offered for it, we therefore humbly befeech
* your Majefty, that you. will be pleafed, by your
' Royal Proclamation, to fet apart fome fuch Day,
* for a public Thankfgiving, throughout all thefe
* your Majefty's Dominions, as to your Majefty's
' great Wifdom (hall feem meet.'
June i. This Day the King came to the Houfe
of Lords for the firft Time, and, fending for the
3;heKing comes Commons, his Majefty made a fhort Speech to both
t« the Houfe. Houfes, and then commanded the Lord Chancellor
to deliver his Mind further to them, which he ac-
cordingly did, lay the Juutnals, in a very large one;
but neither of them are entered in thofe Authorities.
Nor have we met with them, at Length, elfewhere;
there is only a fhort Abftracl: of the Chancellor's
Speech piefervtu in iiiftory, which he made after
the
Of E N G L A N D. 337
the King had given his Royal Aflent to thefe threeAn. n. Car. If,
Bills, «5.
An Ad for preventing and removing all Queftions
and Difputes, concerning the AfTembling and Sit-
ting of this prefent Parliament.
An Act for putting in Execution an Ordinance
mentioned in the faid A&.
An AcT: for Continuance of Procefs, and all judi-
cial Proceedings.
After which the Lord Chancellor told both Houfes,
* With how much Readinefs his Majefty had patted
thefe important A&s, and how willing they fhould
at all Times hereafter find him, to pafs any other
that might tend to the Advantage and Benefit of the.
People; in a particular Manner defiring, in his Ma-
jefty's Behalf, That the Bill of Oblivion, in which
they had made fo good a Progrefs, might be expe-
dited : That the People might lee and know his Ma-
jefty's extraordinary gracious Care to eafe and free
them from their Doubts and Fears ; and that he
had not forgotten his gracious Declaration made at
Breda, but that he would in all Points make goocj
the fame.'
June 2. The Houfe of Commons, after preparing
and paffing the aforefaid Bills, fell upon debating art
A61 for a general Pardon, Oblivion, and Indemnity,
in which were many Claufes and Exceptions : And
the Queftion being put, That all Receivers, Col-
lectors, &c. of the public Revenues of the King-
dom, be only accountable from the Year 1648, it
pafl*ed in the Negative, 165 to 1505 fo they were
accountable from the Year 16451. The Tellers in,
this Divifion were Mr. Holies and Sir John Hol-
land for the Yeas ; and Lord Falkland and Sir Ri-
chard Temple againft it. A Majority fo fmall {hews
that this Affair muft have been warmly debated, and
that there were many in the Houfe who had been,
concerned in thefe public Accounts, who were
afraid of fuch a Scrutiny.
The fame Day the Houfe refolved, « That the
Gentlemen, the Members of this Houfe, who wera
Voj:, XXII, V tat
338 The Parliamentary HISTORY
m. la Car.ll.fent to his. Majefty with a Letter from this Houfe,
1660. have the Thanks of this Houfe, for their eminent
^— v— • — ' Service performed in that Employment. Accord-
June' ingly the Speaker faid,
Thanks retum'd ' -Gentlemen ', I fhall not need to tell you what
by the Speaker Notice the Houfe hath taken of the eminent Service
ftnuo thT Kin" y°u have Perrormed in your.late Employment to his
ng' Majefty ; you have brought Home the Ark, the
Glory of England^ his Majefty's Perfon, in Safety ;
and truly, if ever a Service deferved to be called a
Service of ever-blefled Memory, this is fuch a Ser-
vice : Therefore the Houfe hath commanded this
Service to be finglcd out from all your former emi-
nent and worthy Services, and to do it per Excel-
lentiam, as much exceeding all that ever hath been
done before for this Nation. And fince the Merit
thereof is fuch, that no Thanks can be proportiona-
ble thereunto, but the Thanks of this Houfe, I am
therefore commanded, in the Name of this Houfe,
and of all thofe they reprefent, the Commons of
England^ to return you their very hearty Thanks.'
At the fame Time Mr. Holies inforrri'd the Houfe,
That he having been fent, with the other worthy
Members, to the King, fome Afperfions had been
caft upon him, as if he had, in his Speech to the
King, tranfgrelTed the Inftructions given him by the
Houfe : On which the Houfe ordered, * That he
fhould have Leave to print the Speech he made to
his Majefty, as aJfo the King's Anfwer to it, for
which he had the King's Leave, as well as the In-
ftruclions of the Houfe, for his own Vindication.
The Lords were bufy in fending out their Or-
ders to ftcp the felling of. Timber, and other De-
predations in the King's Parks, Forefts, &c. in
which, and feveral other Eftates belonging to fe-
veral Peers and other Loyahfts, great Havock had
been made, and was ftill carrying on.
June 4. This Day the Commons fent up Mr.
Prynne, and others, to the Lords, to defire their
Concurrence in fending to his Majefty, to defire
hjm to iffue out his Proclamation, againft thofe that
had
Of E N G L A N D. 339
had a Hand in the horrid Murder of his late Majefty. An. 12. Car. II,
The Lords agreed to this, and the King confentir.g, ^J '
the Proclamation was publiftied, the Form of which ^^~"J
was in thefe Words :
CHARLES, by the Grace of God, cf England,
Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender
of the Faith, &c.
To all our loving Subjeffs of England, Scotland, and
Ireland, Greeting,
' T T TE take Notice, by the Information of our A Proclamation
' V V Lords and Commons, now affembled inagainft the late
« Parliament, of the moft horrid and execrable Mur- IJjnj
' der and Treafcn committed upon the Perfon, and '
' againft the Life, Crown, and Dignity, ot our late
« Royal Father Charles the Firft, of blefied Me-
' mory ; and that John Lijle, William Say, Efq;
' Sir Hardrefs Waller, Valentine Wanton, Edward
« Whaley, Efq; Sir John Bourchier, Knt. William
' Haveningham, Efq; Ifaac Pennington, Alderman
4 of London, Henry Marten, John Barkftead, Gilbert
* Millington, Edmund Ludlow, John Hutchinfon,
( Efq; Sir Michael Livefay, Bart, Robert Tichborne,
' Owen Roe, Robert Lilburne, Adrian Scrope, John
' Okey, John Heivfon, William Goffe, Cornelius
* Holland, John Carew, Miles Corbett, Henry Smith,
' Thomas frogan, Edmund Harvey, Thomas Scott,
' William Cawley, John Downe, Nicholas Love,
* Vincent Potter, Auguftin Garland, John Dixwell,
c George Fleetwood, Simon Mayne, James Temple,
* PeterTemple, Daniel Blagrave, and Thomas Wayte,
* Efqrs. being deeply guilty of that moft deteftable
' and bloody Treafon, in fitting upon, and giving
' Judgment againft, the Life of our Royal Father ;
* and alfo John Cooke, who was employed therein as
6 a Sollicitor, Andrew Broughton and John Phelpes,
' who were employed under the faid Perfons as
* Clerks, and Edward Dendy, who attended them
* as Serjeant at Arms, have, out of the Senfe of their
6 own Guilt, lately fled and obfcured themfelves,
4 whereby they cannot be apprehended and brought
* to a perfonal and legal Trial, for their faid Trea-
Y ?. fon,
34-O The Parliamentary HISTORY
An.iz.Car.Il. fon, according to Law: We do therefore, by
1660. the Advice of our faid Lords and Commons,
command, pubiifli, and declare, by this our Pro-
clamation, That all and every the Perfons before
named, (hall, within fourteen Days next after the
publifhing of this our Royal Proclamation, per-
fonally appear and render themfelves to the Speaker
or Speakers of our Houfe of Peers and Commons,
or unto the Lord Mayor of our City of London^ or
to the Sheriffs of our refpective Counties of Eng-
land and IJfales^ under the Pain of being excepted
from any Pardon or Indemnity, both for their re-
fpe&ive Lives and Eftates : And that no Perfon or
Perfons (hall prefume to harbour or conceal any of
the Perfons aforeiaid, under Pain of Mifprifion of
High Treafon'
The Lords alfo ordered, That the Chancellors of
both the Univerfities fliould take Care, that the fe-
veral Colleges in the fame fhould be governed ac-
cording to their refpedive Statutes j and that fuch
Perfons, who have been unjuftly put out of their
Headships, Fellowfhips, and other Offices, relating
to the feveral Colleges, or Univerfities, may be re-
itored according to the faid Statutes of Univerfities,
ana Founders of Colleges therein.
The Commons were bufy moft of this Day in
taking the Oaths to the new Government, or ra-
ther to the old one re-eftablifhed. The Right Ho-
nourable jfamesi Marquis and Earl ofOrmond, Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland, and Lord Steward of his Ma-
jefly's Houfhold, came into the Lobby at the Door of
the Houfe of Commons, where a Table being fet,
and a Chair prepared, being attended by the Clerk
of the Crown, and the Clerk of the Commons
Houfe, with the Rolls of fuch Members as were re-
turned to ferve in this Parliament, his LordfJhip gave
the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance to ieveral
Members, who he had by his Commiffion deputed
to adminifter the fame to other Members in his
Abfence ; and accordingly the following Members
were called out of the Houfe and fworn, and ap-
pointed
Of E N G L A N D. 341
pointed for that Office : Arthur AnneJJey, Efq; Den- An. 12. C»r.ll.
zil Holies, Efq; Sir Anthony AJhley Cooper, Bart.
Sir Gilbert Gerrard, Bart. Sir William Waller, Knt.
Sir Anthony Irby, Knt. Sir Richard Brown, Knt.
Sir William Morris, Knt. Principal Secretary of
State, Sir y<?/6;z Holland, Bart. Sir William Lewis,,
Knt. Sir /SH»/ter £r/?, Knt. Sir £WA? AW;,
Knight of the jBtfM, Heneage Finch, Efq; William
Prynne, Efq; Richard Knightley, Efq; Thomas
Hatcher, Efq; 7^' Charhton, Efq; Edward Turner •,
Efq; Edward King, Efq; and Sa?nuel Jones, Efq;
The FORM of the OATH of SUPREMACY.
/A. B. </0 utterly teftify and declare in my Cqnfci- Form of the
*»«, Tftrf/ »«r Sovereign Lord King Charles ffo Oaths to hew-
Second is the only Supreme Governor of this Realm, M*
ffW (?/" «// e/^?r 7;:V Majejlfs Dominions and Coun-
tries^ as well in all Spiritual or Ecclefiaftical Things,
or CaufeS) as Temporal ; and that no foreign Prince,
Perfon, Prelate, State, or Potentate, hath, or ought
to have, any Jurifdiftiw, Po^ver, Superiority, Pre-
heminence, or Authority, Ecclefiajlical or Spiritual,
within this Realm : And therefore I do utterly re-
nounce and forjake all foreign "Jurifdittions^ Powers,
Superiorities, and Authorities ; and do promife, that
from henceforth I /hall bear Faith and true Allegiance
to the King's Majefty, his Heirs and lawful Succef-
fors ; and, to my Power, Jhall ajjijl and defend all
Jurifdiffions, Privileges, Pre-eminences, and Au-
thorities, granted or belonging to the King's Majejly,
his Heirs and SucceJJors ; or united and annexed to
the Imperial Crown of this Realm : So help me Godt
and by the Contents of this Book*
The FORM of the OATH of ALLEGIANCE.
T A. B. do truly and fencerely acknowledge, profefs*
•*• tcftify, and declare, in my Cvnfcience, before God
and the World, That our Sovereign Lord King Charles
the Second is lawful and rightful King of this Realm,
and i/fall other his Majefty s Dominions and Countries ;
and that the Pope, neither of himfelf, nor by any Au-
thority of the Church or See of Rome, or by any other
Y3 Me
If a n s.
34* fflf Parliamentary HISTORY
An* is. Car. II. Means, with any other, hath any Power or Authtri-
1660. ty to depofe the King, or to difpofe of any of bis Maje-
ti_< — \t~- _J fly's Kingdoms or Dominions* or to authorize any foreign
Prince to invade or annoy him, or his Countries ; or
to discharge any of his Maje fly's Subjects of their Al*-
legiance and Obedience to his Majejly \ or to give Li-
cence or Leave to any of them to bear Arms, raife Tu-
mults, or to offer any Violence or Hurt to bis Majejlfs
Royal Perfon, State, cr Government, or to any of his
Majeftys Subjects, within his Majejlys Dominions.
Alfo 1 do jwear from my Heart, That, nctwith-
ftanding any Declaration, or Sentence of Excommuni-
cation or Deprivation, made or granted, or to be
)nade or granted, by the Pope, or his Succejjbrs, or by
any Authority derived, or pretended to be derived,
from him, or his See, againjl the faid King, hi* Heirs
or Succejfors, or any Abjolution of the jaid Subjects
from their Obedience, 1 will bear Faith and true Al-
legiance to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succejjbrs ;
and him and them will defend, to the uttermo/t of my
Power^ againjl all Conspiracies and Attempts what-
fee-ver, which Jhall be made again/} his or their Per-
fonsi their Crown and Dignity, by Reafon or Colour
of any fuch Sentence or Declaration, or . other-wife ;
and will do my befi Endeavour to difclofe and make
known unto his Majejly, his Heirs and Succejfors^ all
Treafons, and traiterous Conspiracies^ which I Jhall
know, or hear of, to be againjl him, or any of them.
And 1 do further fwear, That I do, from my Heart,
abhor, deteji, end abjure, as impious and heretical,
this damnable Doftrine and Pofttion, That Princes^
which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, may
le depofed or murdered by their Sub/efts, or any other
whatfoever. And I do believe, and in Confcience am
refolved, that neither the Pope, nor any Perfon what-
foever, hath Power to a'ofolve me of this Oath, or any
Part thereof-, which 1 acknowledge, by good and full
Authority, to le lawfully minijlered unto me ; and do
renounce all Pardons and Dijpenfations to the contrary:
And all thefe Things I do plainly andfincerely acknow-
ledge and fwear, according to thefe exprefs Words by
ine fpoken^ and according to the plain and common
Senft
Of E N G L A N D. 343
Senfe and Under/landing of the fame Words, without An. ^^. Car. II.
any Equivocation, or mental Eva/ion, or fecret Re- l66°'
fervation whatfoever : And 1 do make this Recogni- *"" "V— -^
tion and dcknoivledgment heartily , willingly , fl/z J /r«fy,
<? ?r#? jFtf/Y/& <?/ « Cbriftian : So help me God.
June 5. The Houfe of Commons were ftill bufy
in carrying on the Act of Indemnity and general
Pardon, and this Day it was propofed to except feven
Perfons for Life and Eftate. And.it being likewife
propofed, That they ihould be then named, Thomas
Harrifon, William Say, "John "Jones, Thomas Scott,
Cornelius Holland, John Lijle, and "John Bark/lead, '
were feverally named, and agreed to for that Purpofe.
June 6. The Commons had voted a Prefent of
10,000 /. to be made to the Duke of York, and this
Day they received a Letter of Thanks from his
Highnefs for it,"with which that Houfe was fo plea-
fed, that they ordered the Lord-General to ftgnify
to his Highnefs the grateful Senfe they had of his af-
fectionate Letter to them, and the' Letter to be en-
tered in their JeurvalL viz, '
•f : . . -:.3rr? . 1'rj :-»c no"? ^T- M i ,'y;j
Mr. Speaker, ' ' FPbttfhall, June 5, 1660.
IDefire you to aflure the Houfe of Cpmmons>Duke of fork'*
that 1 have a great Senfe of the many Demon- Letter of Thanks
... r i • A/T o- i 11 to the Commons.
ftrations of their Aixecrion towards me ; and that,
tho' the Neceflities of many Years had prepared
me to give a welcome Reception to the I'refent I
lately received from them, yet nothing did fo
much recommend it to m'e, as that it was an Ar-
gument of the Affeclion of that Houfe, to which I
{hall always ftudy to make fuch Returns as be-
Tour mvjl ajfe&ionate Friend,
JAMES.
The King had published a Declaration under his
Sign Manual and Privy Signet, dated Breda, dprit'^
O. S. of a fiee and general Pardon, with Refer-
vatjon to except fuch Perfons as {hal! be exceptpij
by
344 e^}e Parliamentary HISTORY
Aft, ii. Car. II. by this prefent Parliament, in an Act of general
Pardon and Oblivion. Both Houfes thought pro-
per, at this Time, to claim it for themfelves ; and
thereupon they prepared Votes and Refolutions to
be feverally laid before his Majefty for that Purpofe.
June 8. The King having appointed this Day to
be waited on, the feveral Speakers, attended by their
whole Houfe, went up to lay Claim to this Pardon ;
and humbly to defire his Majefty, That it might be
as effectual to all his Subjects in particular, (except
as before excep:ed) as if every of them had at any
Time, fince the firft of May laft, perfonally laid
hold of his Majefty 's Grace and Pardon, and by
public Act declared their fo doing. And that his
Majefty Would be gracioufly pleafed to declare his
Acceptance thereof, and, by his Royal Proclama-
tion, to aflure the Hearts of his Subjects of the
fame.^The King exprefTed his Readinefs and Wil-
lingnefs to fatisfy all the Particulars, offered in his
Declaration, both concerning the two Houfes and
all other Perfons.
The Commons proceeded the fame Day to ex-
cept more Perfons out of their Adi: of Pardon, when
yohn Cooke, Andrew Brougbton, and Edward Dendy^
Sollickers and Agents at the late King's Trial, were
excepted both as to Life and Eftates. And having
examined fome Witnefles, touching the Perfon who
executed the late King, they refolved, That thofe
two Perfons, who were upon the Scaffold in Dif-
guife, when the deteftable and traiterous Sentence
upon the late King was executed, be excepted out
of the general Act of Pardon for Life and Eftate.
A Letter from Prince Henry, returning Thanks to
the Houfe of Commons for the Prefent of Money
they made him d, on his coming over, was received
and read ; the Contents of which were as follow :
Mr. Speaker, June 5, i66cn
wj, to ' TAm fo fenfible of the good Affections exprefied
the fame. ' J^ to me by the Houfe of Commons, in the late
' Supply
«" Five Thouftnd Pounds.
Of E N G L A N D. 345
* Supply of Money, which they fent me into Hal- An. n. Car. II,
* land, that I think myfelf obliged to intreat you to l66°-
* give them Thanks for it in my Name ; and to allure '- 7^""*
' them, that tho' my Condition abroad was fuch as
' made that Afliftance very feafonable, yet it was
' not fo welcome to me, out of that Confideration»
* as becaufe it was a Teftimony of their Efteem,
* which I value at a much higher Rate ; and whereof
* my Actions {hall evidence how much I defire a
* Continuance. I am, Mr. Speaker,
Tour very affeftionale Friend^
HENRY.
The Houfe was fo pleafed with this Letter alfo,
that they ordered it to be entered in their Journals^
as a Teftimony of his Highnefs's Affe&ion and high
Efteem to their Houfe, and of their humble and
hearty Acknowledgment thereof.
The Houfe of Commons, in carrying on the Act
of Oblivion, were ftill feeking out for fuch as were
to be excepted out of it, and had appointed a Com-
mittee to inform themfelves, by perufing the Jour-
nal of the pretended High Court of Juftice, for Trial
of the late King, what Perfons not fitting at the
faid Trial, on the 27th of January , 1648, did fit at
the faid Trial, in IVeJiminfter-Hall^ any of the Days
preceding, and to report their Names to the Houfe*
June 9. Accordingly Mr. Prynne, from this Com-
mittee, brought in feveral Names of fuch Peribns,
with the Times of their Sitting at the Trial ; on
which the Houfe refolved, That William Lord Mun-
fon, Thomas Challoner, James Challoner, John Fry9
Francis Lafcelles, Sir Henry Mildmay, Robert ff^al'
/op, Sir Gilbert Pickering, Sir James Harrington^
Thomas Lifter, and John Phelpes, one" of the Clerks
under the pretended High Court of Juftice, fhould
all be excepted out of the Act of general Pardon and
Oblivion, for and in refpecl: only of fuch Pains,
Penalties, and Forfeitures, (not extending to Life)
as fhall be thought fit to be inflicted on them by
another
346 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. i«. Car. II. another Act, intended to be hereafter pafled for that
1660. Purpofe.
^— -v*-' At the fame Time the following Perfons were
•*une" voted to be fpared for Life, tho' all fat in Judgment
on the late King ; the Lord Grey of Grooby,. Sir
Hardrefs Waller •, Valentine Wanton, Edward Whal-
ley, Ifaac Ewer, Sir John Danvers, Sir Thomas
Maleverer, Sir John Bourchier, William Hevening-
bam, Ifaac Penning ton, Henry Marten, William
Purefoy, John Blakijlon^ Gilbert Millington, Sir
William- Confl able, Bart. Edmund Ludlow, Sir Mi-
chael Live/ay, Bart. Robert Tichborne, Owen Rowe,
Robert Lilburne, Richard Deane, John Okey, John
Hughfon, William Gaffe, John Carew, Miles Cor-
bett, Francis Allen , Peregrine Pelham, John Moore,
John Allured^ Henry Smyth, Humphry Edwards,
Gregory Clement, Thomas Wogan^ Sir Gregory Nor-
ton, Bart. Edmund Harvey^ John Venn, Thomas
Andrews, Alderman of London, William Cawley,
Anthony Stapely, John Downes, Thomas Horton,
Thomas Hammond, Nicholas Love, Vincent Potter,
Auguftin Garland, John Dixwell, George Fleetwood,
Symon Mayne, James Temple, Peter Temple, Daniel
Slagrave, and Thomas Wayte.
June u. The Houfe were informed by Mr.
Prynue, one of the Committee for fwearing the
Members, that, in comparing the Returns of Mem-
bers to ferve in that Houfe, with the Lifts of thofe
who had taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supre-
macy, he finds their Number to be 455 ; and that
he knows not any fitting Member that has refufed
to take them. The Lord General Monke, and the
Lord High Admiral of England, were defired to take
effectual Care that the faid Oaths fhould be admi-
niftered to all the Officers and Soldiers of the Army,
and all the Commanders, Officers, and Marines of
the Navy : And that his Majefty be defired to iflue
out a Proclamation, requiring all and every Perfon
and Perfons in this Realm, who by Law ought to
take the faid Oaths, to take them accordingly.
The Houfe next refumed the Debate on the Acl
Of ENGLAND. 347
of general Pardon and Oblivion, when a Letter from An. 12. Car,;it»
William Lenthall, Efq; the late Speaker, was read,
and the Queftion being put that he be one of the
twenty Perfons to be excep ed out of the general A6t
of Pardon, to {utter fuch Pains and Penalties, Life
only cxcepted, as ftiould be thought proper to infii&
upon him ? The Houfe divided, and it was carried
againft him by 215 to 126. — —Sir Henry Vane was
alfo voted to lie under the fame Dilemma, without
any Divifion.
The Lords had had an Affair of their own Privilege
before them for fome Time, relating to the Choice
of their own Speaker in fome Cafes : And a Com-
mittee being appointed to examine into this Bufi-
nefs, the Lord Roberts reported their Refuit to the
Houfe. * That it is the Duty of the Lord-Chan-
cellor, or Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal, of Eng-
land, ordinarily to attend the Lords Houfe of Parliiv^
ment ; a*nd that in cafe thofe great Officers be ab-
fent from the Houfe, and that there be none autho-
rized, under the Great Seal, by the King, to fupply
that Place in the Houfe of Peers, the Lords may
then chufe their own Speaker during that Vacancy.'
The Houfe confirmed this Report, and ordered it to
be entered in the Roll amongll the {landing Orders
of the Houfe : And, foon after, the King thought
proper to grant aCommiinon, under his Great Seal,
to Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Lord Chief Baron of the
Exchequer, to execute that Place in the Houfe,
whenever the Lord Chancellor fhould have Occa-
fion to be abfent.
The Lords alfo appointed a Committee to confi-
der of the great Violation that hath been committed
upon the Peers of this Realm, by retraining their
Perfons, burning them in the Hand, refufmg their
Privileges when they have been claimed, and many
other Breaches : And that the f.iid Committee have
Power to fend for all Offenders in thole Kinds, and,
after Examination thereof, to report it to the Houfe.
June 13. This Day the Commons agreed that
the following Perfons ihould be of the Twenty who
348 The Parliamentary HISTORY-
An. »2. Car. II. were to be excepted out of the Ac~t of Pardon, for
1660. Pains and Penalties not extending to Life, viz.
C"TV^*'J William Burton, Serjeant Richard Keeble, Oliver
St. John, John Ireton, Sir Arthur Hafilrigge, Col.
William Sydenham, John Dejborough, and Daniel
Axtell : On Sydenham there was a Divifion, but it
was carried againft him, 147 to 106. The Trial
of Buljlrode Wkitlocke, a Perfon well known in thefe
and former Times, came alfo on ; and the Queftion
being put, Whether the main Queftion be now put,
it pafled in the Negative, 175 againft 134 ; fo Mr.
Whitlocke was refpited for that Time.
The Commons continued to except Perfons out
of their Act of Pardon, but though it had been vo-
ted to except no more than twenty, yet they went on
with their Exceptions for of Pains and Penalties, and
Colonel John Lambert, ChriJiopherPacke, Alderman
of London, and John Blackwell^ of Mortdack, were
named for that Purpofe.
The famous John Milton comes next to be que-
fHoned for writing two Books, one intituled, Jo-
Lannis Miltoni Angli pro Populo Anglicano Defenfio^
contra Claudii Anonimi, alias Salmajii Defenfionem
Regiam ; the other, an Anfwer to a Book called,
The Portraiture of his late Majefty in his Solitude and
Sufferings. At the fame Time one John Goodwin
was mentioned for writing another Book, intituled,
The Objlruttors of Juftice, in Defence of the traite-
rous Sentence againft the late King's Majefty. Thefe
two Perfons were ordered to be taken into Cuftody
by the Serjeant at Arms, to be profecuted by the
Attorney-General ; and, laftly, the King defired to
iflue out his Proclamation to recall their Books, along
with fuch other Books as (hould be prefented to his
Majefty, in a Schedule from the Houfe, in order to
their being burnt by the Hands of the common
Hangman.
This Day Mr. Secretary Morrice acquainted the
Commons that he had a Meflage from his Majefty in
Writing ; which he was commanded to deliver to
that Houfe, and defired it might be read, which was
as follows :
CHARLES
Of ENGLAND. 349
C H A R L E S R. An. i». Car.II.
^£ have had too ample a Manifejlation of your l66°*
Affection and Duty toward us, the good Effett V"""r"v"""*''
^vbcreof is notorious to the World, to make the leajl •'un(
Doubt of the Continuance and Improvement thereof \
or in the lea ft Degree to diflike -what you have done, or^^fj™*
to complain of what you have left undone. We know wW/Houfe of Com-
the Height of thofe Affairs, which depend upon yourmon**
Counfels, and the Time that muft unavoidably be fpent
in Delates, where there muft naturally be Difference
of Opinion and 'Judgment, amongft thoje whofe Dejires
of the public Peace and Safety are the fame ; and,
neither we nor you muft be overmuch troubled, if we
find our good Intentions, and the unwearied Pains we
take to reduce thofe good Intentions into real Afts, for
the Ijhtiet and Security of the Nation, mif~reprefented
and mi f- interpreted by thofe who are, in Truth, af-
flitted to fee the public Diftrattions, by God's Blejfing%
jo near an End ; and, by others, upon whofe Weak-
nefs, Fears, and 'Jealoufies, the Activity and Cunning
of thofe ill Men have too great an Influence.
How wonderful and miraculous foever the great
Harmony of Affeflions between us and our good Sub-
jecls is, (and that is fo vifible and manifeft to the
World, that there fcarce appears the View of any
Cloud to overfhadow or difturb it) yet, we muft not
think that God Almighty hath wrought the Miracle
to that Degree, that a Nation fo miferably divided
for fo many Years, is Jo foon and entirely united in
their Affections and Endeavours, as were to be wifftd ;
but that the evil Consciences of many Men continue
fo aiuake for Mifchief, that they are not willing ty
take Reft themf elves, or to fuffer others to take it :
And we have all had too fad Experience of the un-
happy Effefts of Fears and 'Jealoufies, hoiv groundlej}
and unreasonable foever, not to think it very nfcsjfary
to apply all timely and proper Remedies to thofe Dif~
tempers, and to prevent the Inconveniences and Mif-
chief s which too naturally flow from thence : H^e well
forefaw, that the great violation, which the Laws of
the Land had for fo many Years fujlained, had fill* <i
the Hearts of the People with a terrible dpprehtrifan
°f
350 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12. Car. II. of Infecurity to tbem&foes. if all they had faid and
1660. done fault} ^ liable to be examined and puni/hed by
V-— v«.^ tbofe Laws which had been fo violated ; and that no-
>'Une' thing could eftablijh the Security of King and People,
but a full Provision, that the returning to the Reve-
rence and Obedience of the Law, which is good for
us oil, Jhould not turn to the Ruin of anyy who are
Willing and fit to receive that Proteflion hereafter from
the Law, and to iyay that Subjection to it that is jujl
and necejfary ; and, therefore, we made that free Of-
fer of a general Pardon in fuch a Manner, as i;
exprejjed in our Declaration ; and how ready and deji-
rous ^ue are to make good the fame, appears by our
Proclamation^ which we have ijjjued out upon, and ac-
cording to, your Defere.
However, it is evident, that all we have, or do
offer, doth not enough tompofe the Minds of our People ,
nor, in their Opinions, can their Security be provided
for, till the Afl of Indemnity and Oblivion be paffed ;
and we find great Induftry is ufed by thofe, who do
not wife that Peace to the Kingdom they ought to do,
to perfuade our good Subjects, that we have no Mind
to n ake good our Promises, which, in Truth, we de-
fire to perform for our own Sake as well as theirs :
And ive do therefore very earneflly recommend it to you,
that fill pojfihle Expedition be ufed in the pfjftng that
mo ft necejjary Act, whereby our good Subjects generally
will be fatisfied, that their Security is in their own
Hands, and depends upon their future Aflions, and
that they are free for all that is pa ft, and fo all the
Endeavours of ill Men will be dijappointed, which
would perfuade them not to do well now, becaufe they
have heretofore done amifs. And we are the more en-
gaged to this our Recommendation, becaufe, upon the
Reflection of your eminent 'Leal and Affection for our
Service, and hearty Concurrence with us in all we have
dejired from you, Men are apt to perjuade others^
though they do not believe it themfelves, that the paj-
Jing the Att is therefore deferred, becaufe we do
not enough prefs the Dijpatch of it, which we do de-
fire from our Heart, and are confident you will the
fooner do, upon this sur earneft Recommendation.
After
Of ENGLAND. 351
After the reading of the above Remonftrance from An. iz. Car. II.
the King, 'the Commons defired the Secretary to re- l66^*
turn their humble Thanks to his Majefty for his T*~
gracious MefTage ; and to acquaint him, That the
Houfe would make it their Endeavour to give* a
fpeedyDifpatch to what is mentioned in theMeflage ;
and to all other Matters relating to the Public.
Accordingly the Houfe refumed the Ac~t of Indem-
nity; when, after Debate, it was refolvedjThatC/W/^
Fleet-wood^ John Pyne, Richard Dean, Major Rich-
ard Creed, Philip Nye, 'John Goodwin, Clerk, Co-
lonel Ralph Cobbet, William He-wet ', and Hugh Pe-
ters, fliould be excepted out of the A£t of general
Pardon and Oblivion ; the two laft for Life.
A curious Manufcript, a which has certainly been
the Note- Book to fome Member of this Parliament,
and fent in to the Editors of this Work fince their
laft Advertifement to the Public, informs us, That
when this Debate was entered into, at this Time,
Sir Henry Cholmley moved, That all fuch Members
as had fat in any High Court of Juftice fhould with-
draw, but refufed to name any. This Motion was
feconded by Sir William Vincent ; to which Mr.
Charlton and Mr. Prynne . added, all thofe that ab-
jured, or figned the Inftrument of Government. Mr.
Goodrich fpoke to lay that Bufmefs afide; and Sir
George Booth, not to queftion them now, but to go
to the Bufmefs of the Day. Lord Falkland moved
to exclude them ; as did alfo Sir George Ryves, and
Col. King.
Some other Speakers are named in the Manufcript
for and againft the Motion; but we do not find that
the Houfe divided upon it, but went to the Bufmefs
of the Day, which was to name the twenty Perfons
who were to be excepted out of the general Pardon.
Mr. Prynne, the Manufcript fays, moved firft againft
"Col.
a This Manufcript is by Way of Diary, and begins with June 18,
1660 j but is broke into fometirries by Lacerations, &c. It is wrote in
the Hand of the Times, coincides exaftly with the Journals of ths
Commons, but is much more particular in the Names of the Speakers in
each Debate. It was communicated to the Editors of this Work, by
the Rev. Charles Lyttclton, LL. D. Dean of Exeter, to whom thry
are alfo obliged for many other Favours of this Kind, in the CouiT?
*f this Hiftorv.
352 7& Parliamentary HISTORY
An. »». Car. II. Col. Fleetwood, which was anfwered by Sir Ralph
°6°' Knight, for him ; but Mr. Palmer and Col. King,
**jJS^ fpeaking alfo againft him, he was voted to be ex-
cepted ; making, as the Note- Book fays, the I4th
Man. Lord Falkland named Col. Pyne; which
Mr. Swanton and Mr. Chafe feconding, faying, He
was called the King of the Weft^ and was a great
Tyrant, upon the Queftion, he was voted to be ex-
cepted, being the 1 5th Man. Mr. Philip Jones was
named next ; but, on reading a Petition from him,
juftifying himfelf that he was not guilty of the King's
Death, and Mr. Annejley and Mr. Finch fpeaking
for him, his Affair was dropt. Mr. Prynne moved
againft Richard Cromwell ; but, no one feconding,
the Houie proceeded no farther againft him at that
Time. The fame Member named Major Sa/way9
feconded by Mr. Goodrick ; but Mr. Dolt/well deli-
vering a Petition from the Major, and he and Mr.
Knightley fpeaking for him, he was alfo pafled by.
Sir 'Thomas Clarges moved againft Richard Dean ;
faying. There was a Sufpicion that he had lately
difperfed dangerous Papers in Scotland, and was an
Anabaptilt; upon which he was voted amongft the
Excepted, and made the j6th Man.
The Caufe of Mr. Wbitlocke* the Memorialift,
who had a£ted in high Stations in every Revolution
ilnce the lare King's Death, came on once again
this Day. The Manufcript informs us, That Mr.
Prynne firft moved the Houfe againft him, which
was feconded by Sir Ralph Ajhton and Sir Henry
Finch, who faid, JVhitlocke was as much an Ambaf-
fador as St. John was ; was for fining him, but not
to exceed the Value of two Years Income of his
Eftate.
Mr. Annejley was for not quitting him, but to fet
feme jVlark of Disfavour upon him only, by reafon of
hisnumerous Family. Mr.Charlton alfo fpoke againft
him, but moderately ; and Mr. Palmer moved to fpare
his Eftate for his Children's Sake. For IVbitlocka
fpoke Mr. WJoughby^ Sir Henry Cbo/m/ey, Mr. Tur-
'2£j-J~,ordHcward} Sir George Booth) ^\vJohnRobinfony
and
Of E N G L A N D. 353
and Sir Richard Brown, who faid, Mr. Wbitlocke^
preferved him from being taken; and Six John Hot-
land, who urged his fending the Kin : over 500 /.
and his fecuring Lyme for him, of which his Son
was Governor. On the whole, Mr. IVhitlocke was
again acquitted.
The next Perfon who was named was Major
Creed, and only Major Archer fpoke for him; how-
ever the Houfe divided twice on this Affair ; flrft,
Whether the QueiHon fhould be then put; which
was carried, 147 againft 101 ; and the Main Que-
ftion being put, Creed was caft by 133 to 103 : So
he made the lyth Man.
Sir William IVyldc moved the Houfe againft Philip
Nye, a Minifter, which was feconded by Sir Henry
Finch ; who faid, Nye had enriched himfelf very
much in thofe Times of Plunder and Rapine; and
that there needed no particular Charge, fince the
Hue-and-Cry was general againft him. Mr. Tur-
ner alfo urged it home againft Nye, and faid, That
he being the Grandee at the Committee for beftow-
ing Benefices, a young Man oi Learning and Merit
would not pafs with him, when a worthlefs good-
for-nothing Fellow was always preferred. Sir Ri-
chard Temple moved to charge Nye with fome capi-
tal Crime ; but the Houfe was more moderate, and
one Mr. Folie fpeaking for him, he was only ex-
cepted as above, and made the i8th Man.
John Goodwin, the Author before-mentioned, was
next named by Mr. Prynne, and voted to be the
1 9th Man.
Col. Csbbet was moved againft by Mr. Hopkins',
Sir Henry Finch feconded ; but not to put him on the
Lift of the Twenty, but except him by himfelf as
capital : But this not being agreed to, it was refol-
ved, on the Queftion, That Cobbet fliould only ftand
for Pains and Penalties, and he made the 2Oth Man.
Judge Thorpe was named at the fame Time with
Cobbet, by Col. King, feconded by Mr. Winfield and
Mr. Prynne; who mentioned one Thorpe, that was
a Judge in Edward the Second's Time, who, for
taking Bribes and other Mifdemeanors, was punifti-
VOL. XXII. Z ed ;
354 ffl>e Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12. Car. II. ed ; and therefore defired that this Judge Thorpe
1660. might alfo fuffer the fame : But feveral Members
^—~ v— -> fpeaking in Behalf of" Thorpe, he was acquitted, and
June, Cobbet, as above, taken in his Place.
The Cafe of Hugh Peters, that Pulpit Incendiary,
came next to be confidered by the Houfe; Serjeant
Tyrrell produced an Information againft him, from,
one Dr. Young, a Phyfician in Wales : That Peters^
being very fick and like to die, told him, that it was
he and Cromwell who confulted together how to dif-
pofe of the late King. Hewlet, the Man fufpected
to have cut off the King's Head, was alfo named
with Peters, there being two WitnefTes ready to
fwear againft him : On which the Houfe thought
proper to except them out of the Act for Life, and
leave them to the Law.
But it is now Time to return back to fee what the
Houfe of Lords were doing all this while 3 and they
were not without their Trials of fome of thofe
Wretches, who had done fo much Mifchief in the
Nation.
One Major Rolph was informed againft by two
Witneffes, for having had a Defign to make away
•with the late King, when he was Prifoner in Carlf-
Irook-Ca/lle: On which the Lords ordered the Gen-
tlcman-Ufher of the Black Rod to take Rolph into
Cuftody, as a dangerous Perfon, and bring him,
along with the Witnefles, before them the next
Morning.
Accordingly this Day, June 14, the Major was
brought to the Bar, as a Delinquent, when Richard
OJbourne, on his Oath, produced a printed Paper, for-
merly printed, in which were Letters he had wrote;
and fwore that the Matter in that printed Paper was
true. Doivcett, the other Witnefs, was alfo fworn,
and afked what he had to charge againft the Pri-
foner; who alfo delivered in a Paper of Informa-
tion, which he had before given as Evidence, and
fwore the fame to be true. The Houfe then ordered
both thefe Papers to be read ; the Contents of
which, as entered in the Journals, were as follow:
A
Of E N G L A N D. 355
./f LETTER to the LordWHAR.Toxyfent /y Richard An. 12. Car. n,
Ofbourne. l66°-
My Lord, June 1,1648. V"T^"'"J
* fT^HOUGH I cannot but imagine I ftand fo
* X highly condemned in your Lordmip's and A Letter to the
* many Perfons Thoughts, that any thing of Vindi- Lord Wbartm
' cation from me muft come with all the Difadvan- on ^5//^>s An-
* tage and Prejudice that may be: Yet, my Lord, cr*
* being confcious of my own Integrity, and confi-
* dent that I mall be judged by your Lordfhips by
1 no other Rules but thofe of Juftice and Reafon, I
* cannot doubt but, when I have difcovered the
* Grounds and Reafons of my Actions, that it will
' appear to your Lordlhips, that what I have done
e hath been agreeable to the feveral Duties I ftand
* engaged in, as I am fuppofed to have acted con-
* trary before I am heard.
* Not to detain your Lordfhip in Circumftances,
* I fhall make this Proteftation, That as no other
* Thing but the Danger of the King's Life could, in
* Reafon, excufe fuch an Attempt, fo I proteft that
* no inferior Confiderations did or could have moved
c to fuch an Aftion : But, my Lord, having had fuch
« particular and well-grounded Information that fo
* horrid a Defign was intended and moved, from
' thofe that could, when they pleafed, have had the
< Power to put it in Execution, I hope I fhall not be
' cenfured for having poftponed all other Confidera-
' tions to that Loyalty which cannot be queftioned
* but I owe to the King.
' But not to leave your Lordfhip unfatisfied with
e the general Account : The Intelligence I fpeak of
* concerning this Defign I received from Captain
' Rolpb) a Perfon very intimate with the Governor,
* privy to all Councils, and one that is very high
4 in the Efteem of the Army ; he, my Lord, in-
* formed me that, to his Knowledge, the Governor
e received feveral Letters from the Army, inti-
* mating, they defired the King might, by any
8 Means, be removed out of the Way, either by
* Poifon or otherwife : And that another Time the
* fame Perfon perfuaded me to join with him in a
Z 2 « Defign
An. ia. Car. II.
1660.
June.
To the Lord
Mar.cbfjlcr o
yie fame.
356 ffie Parliamentary Hi s T OR Y -
Defign to remove the King out of that Caftle to a
Place of more Secrecy, proffering to take an Oath
with me, and to do it without the Governor's Pri-
vity ; who, he faid, would not confent for lofing
the Allowance of the Houfe. His Pretence to this
Attempt was, That the King was in too public a
Place, from whence he might be refcued ; but if he
might be conveyed to fome Place of Secrecy, he
faid we might difpofe of his Perfon upon all Occa-
fions as we thought fit : And this he was confident
he could effect without the Governor's Privity.
* My Lord, confidering all thefe pregnant Cir-
cumftances, I think it will appear that there were,
if there are not, fuch Intentions concerning his Ma-
jefty's Perfon, as may well juftify my Endeavours
that have been made for his Remove from fo much
Danger ; and, for my own Part, my Lord, I muft
be fo plain as to declare concerning my own Act-
ings in relation to this Bufmefs, that had I not
done this, having fuch Grounds, I muft believe I
had then verified all thofe Afperfions of Difloyalty,
and Breach of Truft, which I am contented to fufrer
from thofe, whofe Intereft is, perchance, oppofed to
my Endeavours to prevent fuch damnable Defigns.
' My Lord, I have fpoken nothing here but what
I fLall be ready to teftify upon Oath, whenever I
fhall be called to it, with Promife of Freedom and
Security ; 'till then I muft be contented to fupport
all Cenfures, and fatisfied with the Vindication I
receive from my own Confcience. 1 am
Tour Lordfmp's bumble Servant ,
RICHARD OSBOURNE.
fo the Rt. Hon. tie Earl o/"MANCHESTER,
Speaker of the Houfe of Peers pro Tempore,
Right Honourable, June 1 6, 1648.
Did, by a Letter of the firft of June, acquaint
my Lord Wharton with what I fend here in-
lofed, expecting it would, before this, have been
« communicated to both Houfes. What ftould
* be the Rcafon of concealing a Bufmefs of this Na-
* ture
•I
Of ENGLAND. 357
« ture I know not, except it be to give thofe Time An. 12. Car. II.
' that are concerned in it, better to think of fome l66°-
* Stratagem to evade this Diicovery. W»—"V— ««w
' I humbly delire your Lordfhip, upon Sight of '
* this Relation, to communicate it to the Houfe of
* Peers, which I fhal! be ready to atleft upon Oath
* in every Particular, whenever your Lordihip fhall
4 pleafe to allow me that Freedom and Security,
' which ought to be afforded to any Gentleman and
' Chriftian in witnefling a Truth. I am,
My Lord,
Tour Lordjhlp's
Mojl humble Servant,
RICHARD OSBOURNE.
e Abraham Dcwcett, of IVmdfor, in the County of wr. Z>CW«H'S
Berks? Efq; aged forty-eight Years, or thereabouts, Evidence againil
fworn and examined before the Lords in Parliament, Rolth*
aflembled the i8th Day of July, in the 24th Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles,
and in the Year of our Lord God 1648, informetli
and fayeth, upon his Oath, as followeth, viz.
' That the Examinant being placed by the Conv-
* miffioners of both Routes of Parliament, to attend
* upon his Majefty as Clerk of hisMajefty'sJCitchen,
c at Newcaftle, about the End of January, 1646, and
c continued in that Service always afterwards in fe-
' veral Places, to which his Majefty, from Time to
e Time, removed, until the 28th Day of Maylzft paff.
He depofeth, and fayeth, ' That, about a Fort-
4 night before the faid 28th of May, Mr. Richard
' Oflourtie, who attended upon the King as Gentle-
* man-U(her to his Majefty, at CariJbrook-Caftle? in
* the Ifle oflFigbt, came unto this Examinant, into
4 his Chamber, in the faid Caftle, and then and there
* told him, That the King was weary of his being in
' the faid Caftle, and had a great Defire to be gone
' from thence : To which the Examinant made An-
* fwer, That he could not blame his Majefty for it,
* being in the Condition he there was ; but this
' Examinant conceived that it would be
3
very
'dif*
358 lie Parliamentary HISTORY
An, i*. Car. II.' difficult for his Majefty, and hazardous to his Per-
1660. « for)) to attempt any Efcape from thence, or ufed
^-— v—*' « Words to that Effect : Whereupon the faid Mr.
Juue, f OJbourne, at that Time, left this Examinant, but
' repaired to him again about three or four Days af-
* terwards, in his Chamber, and then and there told
* this Examinant, That Capt. Edmund Ralph, now
' Major Ralph, had a Defign on foot for conveying
* his Majefty's Perfon away from Car ijbrook- Co/lie,
* to fome Place of Secrecy, where but three fliould go
' with him, and where they might difpofe of his
* Perfon as they fhould think fit.
' This Examinant, fearing that the faid Mr. Of-
' bourne came but to entrap him, made Anfwer, That
* if he might fee fomething under his Majefty's
* Hand, teitifying his Majefty's Defire that this Ex-
* aminant fhould affift the faid Mr. O/bourne con-
* cerning his Majefty's Efcape, that then he would
* be ready to aflift him therein : Whereupon the faid
1 Mr. OJbourne again left the Examinant; and 'the
* fame Day, after Supper, came to this Examinant's
* faid Chamber, bringing with him a Note of his
* Majefty's Hand-writing to this Effect, viz. Dow-
* cett, / defire you to ajjijl the Bearer hereof \ Of-
* bourne, for my Efcape : Upon Sight whereof this
* Examinant afked the faid Mr. OJbourne, If his
' Majefty fhould efcape, whither he would then go?
* To which the faid Mr. OJbourne made Anfwer,
' That his Majefty would go to his Parliament:
' And thereupon this Examinant yielded, and pra-
* mifed to join with the faid Mr. OJbourne, as was
* by him propounded, and by his Majefty defired :
' But this Examinant, not daring to keep the faid
* Note, did prefently burn the fame. And after-
' wards this Examinant, upon Conference, from
* Time to Time, with the faid Mr. OJbourne, and
* in purfuance of their faid Agreement in that Be-
« half, dealt with one Tillius, one Wenfcall* and
« Lloyd, and alfo with one Feather/lone, Soldiers at
6 Cart/brook^ for Rewards to them given, and pro-
* mifed to be given, that they (hould be afiiftant to
* the faid Mr. OJbourne and the faid Examinant, to-
' wards
Of E N G L A N D. 359
6 wards his Majefty's intended Efcape ; which they An. iz. Ca
* promifed to be, and Sunday Night, the 28th of l66°-
* May Jaft, was agreed for the Accompliftiment ^ ~*^
f L c June.
* thereof.
* The Manner thereof fhould have been thus :
* The King was to be furnifhed with a Cord by the
* faid Mr. Ofbourne, and with the fame his Majefty,
* by himfelf alone, was to come down out of his
* Chamber-Window within the faid Caftle, in the
c Dark of the Night, and was then forthwith to
4 walk on to the new Platform in the faid Caftle j
c from thence he was to get down by another Cord,
* which this Examinant had provided, to be deli-
* vered to the faid Lloyd, who was therewith to help
' the King in his getting down from the faid Platform;
* from which Place his Alajefty being once gotten
'down, he might, without farther Help of Cords,
* pafs well enough to a Place where Mr. Edward
* IVorfley, an Inhabitant of the faid Ifland, privy and
* confenting to the faid intended Efcape, was to at-
' tend with Horfes for his Majefty, and that his
' Majefty, being got on Horfeback, fhould, from
* that Place, ride about three Miles and an half from
c the faid Caftle, to the Sea, where the faid Mr.
c OJbournc was to attend with a Boat, ready to re-
* ceive and carry off his Majefty.
* This Examinant further fayeth, That about three
* Hours before the Time that his Majefty was to
* efcape, it did plainly appear to this Examinant,
* that the faid Plot for his Majefty's Efcape was dif-
* covered ; whereupon this Examinant, without de-
' livering any Cord to the faid Lloyd, went to Bed in
' his Chamber in the Caftle, and about an Hour and
* a half after the faid Col. Hammond, the Governor,
' and the faid Capt. Ralph, with others, came into
' this Examinant's Chamber, where they found him
* then in his Bed, and the faid Governor ufed then
' forthwith to this Examinant Words to this Eftccl,
' viz. Oh ! Sir, you are in Bed, you are he that
* Jhould have helped to convey away the King To-night l,
' with many other Speeches, And this Examinant
4 was
An. 12. Car. II.
1660.
June.
360 ^he Parliamentary HISTORY
was forthwith commanded to rile and make him-
felf ready ; which he did, and from thenceforth
was confined to his faid Chamber, and a Guard
of Mufkeceers let upon him by Command of the
faid Governor.
' This Examinant alfo fayeth, That, about three
Days after, the faid Ralph came again to his
Chamber, and then and there, in a tearing Man-
ner, afked this Examinant, Why the King came
not do'.vn according to his Appointment? To
which this Examinant anfwered, Becaufe you pre-
vented him. Whereupon the faid Ralph, with
great Indignation and Fury, faid, He waited almoft
three Hours under the new Platfoim with a good
Piftol, ready charged, to receive him if he had
come/
After the Reading of thofe Letters, Major Ralph
was afked, What he could fay to quit himfelf of this
horrid Offence of confpiring the late King's Death,
at Cart/brook • Gajtte ? He denied himfelf to be guilty
of any fuch Deiign a^ to make away with the King
at the faid Caftle ; that he was for that Bufmefs tried
at Wincbefter Affixes, by Order of both Houfes of
Parliament, and was there acquitted by the Grand-
Jury ; and that he had laid hold upon the King's
gracious Offer of Pardon in his Declaration.
The Lords on this ordered, That the Bufmefs
concerning Ralph be recommended to the Judges,
to confider and "date this Affair, and report it to the
Houfe, that their Lordmips may fee whether there
be Ground furficient to except the faid Ralph from
his Majefty's gracious Offer of Pardon: In the mean
Time, that he be committed to Newgate ^ till the
further Pleafuie of the Houfe be known.
'June 15. This Day the Lords had another Cafe
before them, fomewhatof the likeKind as the former,
but whu h concerned a Member of their own Houfe;
The Earl oi Pembroke^ from theCommittee for Privi-
leges, reported, That it was their Opinion the Lord
Vifc.
Of E N G L A N D. 361
Vifc. Purbeck fhouid be fecured by Order of the An. 12. Car. H.
Houfe, fortreafonahle Words alledged and offered to l66°* "*
be proved againft him ; for that the Earl of Monmouthy *— 7^""""^
upon his Honour, averred, That he heard the laid •'un<
Lord Purbeck fay, *• That rather than the late King
fhouid want one to cut off his Head, he would do itThe Lord v;j.
himfelf." The faid Earl alfo delivered in a Paper to Purkck Kcuki
the Houfe, containing blafphemcus Words. Upon for ueafonable
this Information, the Lords ordered the Gentleman- Words> ^«
Ufher, attending the Houfe, forthwith to take the
faid Lord Vifcount Purbeck into Cuftody, and then
bring him to the Houfe, to anfwer an Information
of High-Treafon, and other high Mifdemeanors
againft him.
The very next Day the Gentleman-Ufher ac-
quainting the Houfe, That he had attached the Lord
Vifc. Purbeck^ according to the Order of Yefterday,
the Houfe took into Conlideration how he fhouid be
called in, and the Houfe ordered that he {hould come
into his Place as a Peer, and hear the Information
read againft him ; but the Gentleman-Ufher inform-
ing the Houfe, That the faid Vifcount Purbeck told
him, That he had neither Writ nor Patent to be a
Peer ; and therefore knew no Place he had here in
this Houfe, but was now a Member of the Houfe
of Commons ; and therefore he would not come :
Hereupon this Houfe, conceiving this Anfwer and Re-
fufal to be a Contempt to this Houfe, ordered, That
he fhouid be brought to the Bar as a Delinquent ;
and accordingly he was brought in, and kneel'd at
the Bar as a Delinquent, untill, by Order of the
Houfe, he was commanded to ftand up ; then the
Information was read to him, viz.
1. The Information of the Earl of Monmoutb,
who heard the faid Vifcount Purbeck fay, « Thatra-
ther than the late King {hould want one to cut oft
his Head, he, the faid Vifcount Purbeck , would do
it himfelf.'
2. The Information of the Lord Petre, who, at
the pretended High Court of Juftice upon the late
King, did hear the Lord Vifcount Purbeck fay to
thijB
362 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An, 12. Car.li.this Effe£t, * That Bradjbaw was a gallant Man, the
1660. Preferver of our Liberties ; and that the faid Lord
*~~?£~^ Vifcount Purged hoped that Bradjbaw would do
Juftice upon the Tyrant, fpeaking of the late King.
3. An Information that the faid Vifcount Pur-
leck mould fay, in the Houfe of Commons, in
Richard's Convention, ftanding near the Speaker's
Right Hand, ' Mr. Speaker, I wonder that I fhould
be accufed of being a Cavalier, or bearing Arms for
Charles Stuart , which I never did ; for I proteft I
fo much hated him, and his Caufe, that, becaufe
thofe of the Name of Villars did fide with him, and
aflift him, therefore I hated tha't Name alfo, and
changed it for Danvers.
4. The Information of John Harris, That, on
Monday, December 17, 1649, young Robert Pillars,
Son to Vifcount Purbeck, came in the Afternoon to
the Earl of Monmoutb's Houfe, being then in Quecn-
Jlreet, London, and, among other atheiftical Speeches,
wherein he denied the Immortality of the Soul, and
fcoffed at Judgment to come, he afk'd the Lady Phi-
ladelphia Wharton what fhe fear'd ? That fhe had read
of the Three-headed Dog Cerberus, and was afraid
he would bite her. He alfo, with blafphemousWords,
dared God to maintain his own Quarrel; afking her,
fuppofing fhe were fhut up in a Sheet of Lead, only
a little Hole left againft her Mouth to breathe at, if
that Hole was fuddenly foldcred up, whither her
Soul would go \ LaJlly, He fcoffingly faid, That
God was a good old Man, and troubled himfelf with
little, &c. but he had a Son that was a dapper
young Man, that was likely to beftir himfelf, £sV.'
Thefe being read, the Lord Vifcount Purbeck de-
fired to know whether he might have Liberty to
fpeak, which the Houfe granted, and then he faid,
He valued the Honour of this Houfe very much, but
he hath no Right himfelf to this Honour of a Peer,
becaufe he can find no Patent for any fuch Honour,
in the Petty-Bag Office, nor any Writ : He faid
further, He petitioned the King to give him Leave
to levy a Fine to clear him of any Title to that
Ho-
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Honour, and his Majefty hath made an Order toAn.i2.Car.il.
the Attorney-General for that Purpofe, and the l66°-
Reafons, he faid, to induce him to this, were, »—-v— -^.
1. This Honour was but a Shadow without a Jun'
Subftance.
2. His fmall Eftate was unfit to maintain any
fuch Honour.
3. That Noble Family he came of never owned
him, neither hath he any Eftate from them.
As touching the Information now againft him, he
faid, He is chofen a Member of the Houfe of Com-
mons, to ferve there this Parliament, and being fo,
he did not know whether he {hould anfwer or no ;
but appealed to their Lordftiips, whether he is to be
tried here by their Lordftiips or no.
Hereupon the Houfe commanded him to with-
draw; and the Lords, upon Confideration what
the Lord Vifcount Purbeck had faid, the Speaker of
their Houfe was directed to tell him, That the Lords
were not fatisfied with his Plea, but expected he
{hould make further Anfwer ; and he beinsr called in
again as before, the Speaker told him the Refolution
of the Houfe as aforefaid ; and then he defired he
might have a Copy of his Charge.
Then the Houfe commanded his Lordfhip to with-
draw again, and their Lordftiips, advifmg upon the
Anfwer, ordered, That he fhould be called in again,
and told by the Speaker, That what was now read
unto him was but an Information, and no Charge ;
and the Houfe does not think fit to give him a Copy ;
but expects he (hould anfwer the Information.
Unto which his Lordfhip replied, That he defired
Leave to advife with his Counfel whether he fhould
anfwer, and he did not know, in regard he is a Mem-
ber of the Houfe of Commons, whether he mi^ht
anfwer. After this he was commanded again to
withdraw; and then the Houfe ordered, That the
faid Vifcount Purbeck fhould remain in theCuftody
of the Gentleman- Ufher of the Black Rod, untill
the Pleafureof this Houfe be further fignified.
A few Days after the Lords made another Order
on this Bufinefs, That the feveral Informations, and
like-
364 ^fhe Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12, Car. II. Kkewife thePaper of Precedents read, concerning the
1660. Lord Vifcount Purbeck^ be delivered to the King's
C-'-V"1*^ Attorney -General, and the King's other learned
June* Counfel, to make a State of this Cafe to the Houfe,
that fo their Lordfhips might give further Directions
concerning this Bulinefs.
The Lords for feveral Days after this had nothing
remarkable before them fit for our Purpofe ; Orders
to prevent cutting down Woods and other Waftes in
the King's Parks, Manors, Chaces, &c. as well as
in the Eftates of the Nobility j taking off Sequeftra-
tions, receiving and reading a great Number of Pe-
titions from private Perfons, and others, forRedrefs
of the Grievances they had fuffered during the Ufur-
pation, being all their chief Bufmefs : We fhall
leave them therefore, and return to the Commons ;
Who this Day, June 19, thought it highly proper
that the Thanks of the Houfe fhould be given to the
Lord-Admiral, Edward Montagu, in the Name of
themfelves, and of all the Commons of England, for
his great and eminent Services to his Majefty and the
Kingdom. The Admiral ftanding up in his Place,
the Speaker addrefTed himfelf to him in thele Words :
f My Lord, If you pleafe tocaft your Eyes about
you, you may read in our chearful Faces, our thank-
ful Hearts ; which do indeed exprefs your Praifes,
more than ten thoufand Tongues can poffibly do.
God hath done you the Honour to be the Convey-
ancer of the greateft Bleflings that ever this Nation
received : You have landed our Sovereign upon the
fafeft Shore that ever Englijh King fet his Foot on,
the Hearts of his People.
' The Houfe have therefore ordered this eminent
and tranfcendent Service to be recorded in their
'Journal, there to remain for your Honour as long as
the World endures. Indeed, no Meafure of Thanks
is proportionable to the Meafure of your Merit, but
the Thanks of this Houfe ; and therefore I am com-
manded, and I do, in the Name of this Houfe, and
in the Name of all thofe whom they reprefent, the
Coin-
Of E N G L A N D. 365
Commons of England, give you theirmoftheartyAn.ia.Car.il.
Thanks/ »66°-
A Day or two after this, the Lord -General Monke ^-"~vr"*"^
flood up in his Place, and acquainted the Houfe, ^u y*
That the King, by Patent, had called him up to the
Houfe of Peers ; and gave the Houfe of Commons
Thanks for the many ieveral Favours he had recei-
ved from them.
After this the Commons went on for fome Days
with regulating Elections ; perfecting the Bill of
general Pardon ; raifmg Money ; and putting the
Queen Dowager into Pofleffion of her Jointure and
Ertate, and fending her 20,000 /. for her prefent Oc-
cafions, with other Matters ; but none remarkable
enough for the Courfe of this Hiftory.
July 2. The Bufmefs of raifmg Money for the
prefent Exigencies of the State came nrft on the
Carpet, in the Houfe of Commons, the Beginning
of this Month ; which our Manufcript Diary tells
us was firft moved for by Mr. Secretary Morrice^
in an excellent Speech for that Purpofe. This Mo-
tion was feconded by Mr. Stevens and Mr. Annef-
ley, who were for doing of it fpeedily. But Sir Wil-
liam Lewis argued, That it was beft to proceed with
the A6t of Indemnity firft, that People might be
more ready to pay. Sir John Northcot fpoke on
the fame Side, as did alfo Mr. Prynne and Mr.
Knightley. However, Lord Falkland, fpeaking in
Behalf of the firft Motion, which was to raife Mo-
ney fpeedily to pay the Debts of the Nation ; and Mr.
Piere point faying, That the Charge of the Army and
Navy, and the Intereft, came to 6000 /. a Day ;
that it was inconfiftent for an Army and Parliament
to fubfift together, and that the Trained-Bands were
fufficient: To all which, Col. Birch adding, That
the People's Liberties were not fafe with fuch an
Army ; that, though he was a Member of it him-
felf, yet he moved it might be paid off; and laid,
that 260,000 /. would difband ten Regiments of
Foot ; the Houfe agreed to fet afide every Tuffday,
Thttrfday, and Saturday, to go upon Means to raife
Money ifor that Purpofe. j
366 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. ia. Car. II. The fame Day the Houfe went upon the A& of
Indemnity ; in which a ftrong Debate and a Divi-
fion upon it enfued, fcarce mentioned in thejourna!s9
but which we give from the Authority of our Manu-
Pebate on the ^'P1 Diary. There had been many Provifoes offered
Bill of indem- totheHoufe, in the Courfe of this Bill, fome of which
Bi-y- were taken, and others rejected. But, this Day, a
Provifo was put into the Houfe by fome unknown
Member, to be added to the Bill ; which was, to dif-
able all the Perfons of the High Court of Juftice ;
all Decimators, Major-Generals, Abjurors, and all
thofe that petitioned againft the King. Hereupon a
hot Debate began ; Mr. Annejley moved to have it
thrown out, which was feconded by Sir John Northed;
Mr. Goodrick to throw it out, faying, It was as dan-
gerous as a Hand-Granado in a Barrel of Gunpow-
der. Sir Henry Finch for throwing it out j faying,
It did include all Men. Sir Thomas Clarges for the
fame, adding, That it was a moft dangerous Thing,
and an Indulgence not to inquire who brought it in,
for he deferved to be called to the Bar.
On the other Side, there were feveral Members
who fpoke for the whole Provifo, and others to mi-
tigate and take Part. Mr. Prynne was for the whole,
feconded by Mr. Charlton, who added, That he
who faid the Perfon who brought it in deferved to
be called to the Bar, deferved it himfelf ; and moved
againft thofe that petitioned againft the King, or fat
in Parliament in the Years 1647 anc^ 4^> an(^ in trie
High Court of Juftice : Alfo againft all thofe who
were the Contrivers of the Inftrument of Govern-
ment, thofe that were Impofers of Taxes under Oli-
ver, Major-Generals, and Decimators ; adding,
That though he never preffed the Death of any Man,
yet, to fecure the future Peace of the Nation, he
could net be filent. Col. King was likcwife for re-
ceiving the Provifo ; faying, It was not Prudence to
fet up thofe in Power that now lay under their Feet ;
nor that any in the Houfe, who were guilty of fuch
Crimes, fhould plead their own Caufes.
The Mitigators were, firft, Sir Henry Cholmley^
who moved to take in the Provifo in Part. Mr. Tre-
lany
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lany was only againft Major-Generals and Decima- An. 12. Car. II.
tors. Mr. Palmer againft all Abjurors, Major-Ge- l66°*
nerals, and High Court of Juftice Men. Sir William *"-"r\~^'
D'OHey was for referring the Provifo to a Committee. Ju y
Mr. Knight urged, That the Provifo was too large
and not to be mended. Sir Thomas Meeres to amend
it, if poflible ; but he feared it was impoffible. But
Serjeant Hales, being for reje&ing the whole Provifo,
argued, That it was contrary to the King's Defire,
and even the A& itfelf, which excepted but twenty
Perfons for Pains and Penalties ; and therefore mo-
ved, in order to cement all Differences, to reject it.
And Mr. Young faying, That though he was not
concerned in the Provifo, yet he was againft it, be-
caufe it was againft the King's Defire. Mr. Thomas
concluding, That this ought to be laid afide, and to
take another fomething like it. At laft, upon the
Queftion, the Provifo was ordered to be laid afide.
But this Debate begot another, though a much
fhorter one ; for Col. White immediately moved the
Houfe, That any Provifo brought in, read, and no-
body owning it, might be laid afide. This was fe-
conded by Col. Shapcot and Sir George Booth. Mr.
Knightley was for owning of it the firft Time of
reading it ; Mr. Stevens, to fubfcribe their Names ;
Mr. Trelany, to caft it out the firft Reading, if none
fpoke to it ; and though Mr. Char/ton argued, That
if the Gentleman that brought in the Provifo be out
of the Houfe, and no one fpeak to it, then to reje6t
it, yet no Order was made on this Motion, fays our
Diary, nor is any fuch Thing in the Journals.
July 3. This Day the Commons read a third
Time, and paffed, a Bill, intituled, An A SI for the
Confirmation and future Prefervation of the Privi-
leges of Parliament, and of the Fundamental Laws
made for Confervation of the Lives and Liberties of
the Subjett ; and ordered Mr. Prynne to carry it up
to the Lords.
The Commons had been fome Time on a Poll
Bill, in which they this Day made fome Progrefs ;
and a Claufe being offered for Jnfertion in this Bill,
Who-
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An. J2. Car. II. Whether to impofe this Tax in Proportion to Titles
l66°* and Eftates, on a Divifion, it patted by a Majority of
^"""T^ ^ 129 to 104, and the Members for the leveral Coun-
ties, Cities, Borousris, &c. were ordered to bring in
Names for being Commiffioners to this Bill ; but
that no Decimators, High Court of Juftice Men,
Abjurors, &c. fhould be of the Number.
July 4. A Debate happened in the Houfe of
Commons this Day, not at all mentioned in their
'Journals^ but which is in our Diary. It feems fome
Orders of the Lords bein^:. read, and one which was
to ftay all Profits for the ejecled Minifters, in the
Hands of the Churchwardens, Mr. Eamfield flood
up and produced feveral Orders ot the Lords like-
wife againft Laymen ; wherein, he faid, the Lords
took upon them to order their Clerk to receive Pe-
titions himfelf, and grant Oiders upon them; which
was contrary to their Privilege. He particularly
mentioned Mr. Pitt's Cafe, a Member of this
Houfe, in which the Lords made an Order to ftay
him from cutting Wood upon Ludlow-CaJlle Lands,
which now belongs to his Lady. Col. Shapcot
moved for a Committee to confider of this Cafe,
which was feconded by Sir Anthony Irby and Mr.
Knightley ; which laft Gentleman faid, That the
Minifters came into their Livings without any Or-
der. Mr. Annejley was alfo for a Committee, fay-
ing, That Mr. Pitt's Cafe was a e;reat Breach of
Privilege ; and their Order to their Clerk the great-
eft Reflection that could be on their own ilonours
and Judgments : On which a Committee of Inquiry
into this Cafe was appointed.
The fame Day the Houfe of Commons refuming
the Affair of the Bill of Indemnity, another Provifo
was offered; the Debate on which, tho' but flightly
Debate conti- mentioned in the Journals, was ftronger than any
we have yet met with ; lafting, as our Manufcript
fays, above two Hours. Col. Jones fpoke firft, very
ftrongly, to it, in every Particular. This Provifo
was to caufe all Officers, during the Protectorate, to
refund their Salaries. Particularly aimed againft
Mr.
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Mr. Prideaux for the Poft-Office j likewife againftAn.iz. Car. II.
the High Court of Juftice Men, the Council and l66o>
Committee of Safety, Commiffioners for Excife and ^^7V^"^
Cuftoms, the Truftees for King and Queen's Lands, Ju y
Dean and Chapter's Commiffioners, with all thofe
that were Commiffioners of Sequeftrations, or con-
cerned in the Prize-Office.
This Motion was fcconded by Mr. Prynne, in all
its Articles; who faid alfo, That he knew thofe
Perfons had received above 250,0007. for their
iniquitous Doings, and therefore moved that they
might be made to refund it. Col. King (poke on
the fame Side very warmly, faying, amongft other
Things, It was fit fuch Spunges fliould be fqueezed.
But this Motion for refunding met with a very
warm Repulfe, as might be well expected, fmce
there were too many Members of that Houfe con-
cerned in this Inquiry, to fuffer fuch a Provifo to
pafs. Sir Thomas Widdrington, our Manufcript fays,
was the firft who pleaded ftrongly againft it; a Man
whofe Hiftory thefe Memoirs are full of; and he
ended his Arguments by faying, That if he was in-
cluded in the Provifo, he had much better have been
wholly excluded the Act. Sir Heneage Finch faid,
That moft of thefe Complaints were already named
in the Act, and particularly Accountants excepted,
but not their Heirs, which this Provifo would in-
clude. Mr. Stevens, That thofe were not Ac-
countants, but might be included in the Provifo,
notwithftanding the Act, if fome little Amendments
were made in it. Mr. Char/ton faid, The Provifo
might be amended, and moved that it might ftand.
Sir William D'Oiley was alfo for receiving the Pro-
vifo, but to refer it to two or three Perfons to word
it better, and to leave out the Judges. Some other
Members, Sir Thomas Meeres^ Mr. Palmer^ &c.
fpoke for the Provifo ; but all ineffectual :
For feveral Members fpeaking on the other Side
of the Queftion, as Sir Thomas Clarges, Mr. Toung9
Serjeant Littleton^ Mr. Bodardo, and Mr. Brifcoe^
who faid, Such Rigour would confound Men, where-
as Mercy would convert them. To which Mr.
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3/o The "Parliamentary HISTORY
An.**. Car. II. Goodrick, on the fame, argued, That the Refunding
1660. would be to fome a greater Punifliment, than to be
I"*-""*""1 "^ one of the twenty excepted Perfons ; and that all the
Soldiers were included : And, laftly, Sir Anthony
AJhley Cooper clofed the Debate, with 'faying, He
might freely fpeak, becaufe he never received any
Salary ; but he looked upon the Provifo as danger-
ous to the Peace of the Nation ; adding, That it
reached General Monke and Admiral Montagu,
after the Houfe had given them Thanks, and Thou-
fands befides. On all which the Queftion being
called and put, Whether the Provifo mould ftand or
be laid afide, the Houfe divided, when the Num-
bers were, for (landing, 151, for the latter, 181.
A very large Houfe, and fliews of what Importance
the Subje£t in Debate was to many at that Time.
The fume Day another Provifo was offered to the
Bill ; which was to enable Perfons to bring Actions
for Recovery of Damages againft Perfons that im-
prifoned the Members in December , 1648; except
iuch Perfons as were, the agth of May laft, Mem-
bers of the Army ; but, on the Queftion, this was
foon rejected.
The laft Provifo offered this Day, was againft
fuch as (hall not take the Oaths of Allegiance and
Supremacy; to which Mr. Turner added, or fhall
refufe them. A great Debate followed on this alfo,
many Members fpeaking for and againft this Pro-
vifo. The moft remarkable on each Side were
thefe : Mr. Trevor, in Behalf of the Papifts, faid
'Twas not fit to make an Oath the Price of a Par-
don. Mr. Bamfield was for not impofing the Oaths
ib rigoroufly ; for then, he faid, they would force
Perfons, for faving their Lives and Eftates, to damn
their Souls. Mr. Knight moved to leave out the
Oath of Supremacy, and then none would ftick at
the other. Mr. Holies moved to confider more of
this Motion, and to be very tender in impofing
Oaths ; afking, Whether this was intended to deftroy
all Catholics, which it would infallibly do; that he
was as much againft Papifts as any Man, but thought
this Provifo was better laid afide. There were
many
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hiany Advocates for the Motion; on which Side An. 12. Car. it*-
Sir William Morrice fpeaking, faid, There feemed l66°-
to be fomething lay hid in the Oppofition to it: ' 'fV"""''
Which Words Mr. Holies took Exception at, be- Ju y*
caufe he had fpoken againft' it. On the whole, this
Provifo was laid afide, or rather rejected, without
calling for the Queftion ; which probably is the
Reafon that theie is no Entry made of it in the
Journals.
July 6. A Bill for the Settlement and Mainte- Debate on Reli-
nance of the true Reformed Proteftant Religion, andsion>
for the Suppreflion of Popery, Superftition, Profane-
iiefs, and other Diforders and Innovations, in Wor-
ihip and Ceremonies, was this Day read a fecond
Time. Several Members fpoke to have the Bill
committed ; others went further, which was to call a
National Synod at the fame Time; but this was the
Prefbyterian Religion that was to be eftabliftied, not
one Member fpeaking for the Epifcopal, excepting
Mr. Throgmorton, who faid, He would not be for a
Prefbyterian Government, becauie he had taken the
Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. He urged,
That Buchanan and Knox had both wrote againft
Kings, if they govern 'd not well, and faid, NoBifoop9
no King. But the Conclufion was, That the Bill
fhould be referred to a Grand Committee of the
whole Houfe, who were to fit every Monday on this
fpecial Affair.
The fame Day another warm Debate happened On the Bill of
on a Provifo offered to the Bill of Indemnity, which indemnity again,
was, To queftion any Attorney, or Sollicitor, that
a6led for the Protector, or in any High Court of
Juftice. This was fuft fpoken to by Mr. Prynne9
who was for queftioning them, and then to leave
them to the Law for Recovery of Damages. This
Motion was feconded by Sir Robert Brook ; but
after him feveral Members fpoke againft this Pro-
vifo to have it laid afule ; till Mr. Char/ton moved
not to reject it, but to amend it ; and particularly
moved againft one Mr. Ellis, who was Sollicitor at
Dr. Hewitt's Trial. Col. Sbapcot fpoke againft
A a 2 the
372 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12. Car. II. the Provifo, and in Favour of the Sollicitor, and
1660. faft^ j}r £fewjtt did not refer himfelf in Time to
W*-Tj~l ^ tlie Court ; for Sentence being once given, the
Sollicitor told the Doctor the Court could not hear
him then : To which Mr. Raynesford anfwered,
in Behalf of the Sollicitor, That he never fat in
Court but one Day, and never faid any fuch Word
as was laid to his Charge. To which Mr. Grey ad-
ded, That he heard Dr. Hewitt fay, If any Judge or
Counfel would fay he ought to plead, he would
have done it. At laft, the Queftion being put,
Whether the Provifo fhould be laid afide, the
Speaker gave it for the Ayes; but Sir Robert Brook
ftood up and faid the Noes had it ; upon which the
Houfe dividing, Sir Thomas Widdrington faid, There
were two Gentlemen gone out. Several Motions,
pro and con, enfued on this, to divide the Houfe not-
withftanding ; and after that it took up half an
Hour's Debate, Whether the Ayes or Noes fhould
go out ; but the Speaker faying the Ayes fhould,
although feveral old Members in the Houfe faid the
contrary, their Numbers were 138 for the Provifo,
and 163 againft it ; fo this alfo was laid afide. — The
Houfe or Commons were very merciful in all their
Proceedings relating to the Bill of Indemnity, re-
jeding feveral Provifoes the Day after this; and in-
deed the culpable and inculpable were fo intermixed
and woven with the Members themfelves, that it
was hard to diftinguifh them. — But now return we
to the Lords a little.
July 7. That Houfe feemstobe making Inquifi-
tion for Blood, drawn from fome of their own Mem-
bers, during the late Troubles ; for Alderman Finer
was called before them, and ordered to produce the
Warrants for the Execution of the Lord Capel,
when he was Sheriff of London, under the Hands
and Seals of the High Court of Juftice that con-
demned him. It appearing to their Committtee of
Privileges, that the Lord Capel was put to Death
contrary to the Articles of War, for the Surrender
cf Colchefler^ without any Authority from any legal
Power,
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Power. The faid Alderman delivered in two other Ar
Warrants, under the Hands and Seals of thofe that
fat in the High Court of Juftice, for the Execution
of the Marquis of Hamilton and the Earl of Hol-
land. On which the Lords made the following Or-
der :
6 Ordered, That all fuch Perfons as had appeared
before the Committee of Privileges, and have con-
fefled to have fet their Hands and Seals to thofe three
Warrants for Execution, (hall be fent for to appear
before this Houfe as Delinquents.
The Lords heard a Caufe this Day, concerning
two Officers of their own Houfe, Humphrey Leigh,
Efq; Serjeant at Arms, attending the Lord-Chan-
cellor, and Alexander Thayne, Gentleman-Uiher of
the Black- Rod, attending the Houfeof Peers; where-
in the Serjeant affirmed, That all Warrants of that
Houfe ought to be directed to him for apprehending
and bringing of Delinquents before the Lords in Par-
liament, and for carrying them into fafe Cuftody.
The Lords, after hearing Precedents, and a ferious
Debate of this Matter, ordered and declared, That
they would referve the Power to themfelves, to em-
ploy fuch Perfons as they ihould think fit for fending
for Delinquents, and keeping them in Cuftody as
they fhould fee Caufe. — A Place thought well worth
ftruggling for, at that Time, by the two Opponents
above.
On an Information given to the Houfe, That Eli-
zabeth Cromwell, Widow, and Richard Cromivell,
Efq; £ffc. had many Deeds, Evidences, and Writings
in their Cuftody, belonging to the Lord Marquis of
Worcefler-, an Order was made for their Refump-
tion. But we only mention this to fhew how thofe
Stars were fallen ; who, not a Twelvemonth before,
Ihone the brighteft in the Englijb Hemifphere.
'July 9. The Commons went on with their Bill of
Indemnity, and the Bill for Confirmation of Judicial
Proceedings ; the latter of which this Day pafled that
Houfe, after a Debate of two Hours \ though the Di-
A a 3 aty
374 Tb* Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 13. Car. Il.arv does not give us the Particulars of it. The othef
^'^ was now a'^° Cawing near a Conciufion; and,
after all, the Mercy of the Commons was ihewn
in it much greater than their Power, for there were
only the following Perfons, thav were the lare King's
Judges, and who did not furrender themfelves ac-
cording to the Pioclamation, excepted for Life and
iiftate in the B;li, viz. Valentine It'auton, Edward
Wholly Sir Michael Livefay, John Hugbfon, Wil-
liam Gaffe, Mi Us Corbet, William Cawley, Nicholas
Love, John Dixwell^ and Daniel Blagrave.
In the Afternoon of this Day the Grand Com-
mittee for Religion fat according to Order; the
Debate on which, no where mentioned but in our
Diary, we fhali give at large ; obferving, That now
was the Cornell whether the Prefbytenan Church-
Government, or the Church of England formerly
eftabliihed, mould reign. A tender Point to treat of
at that Time; and the Reader may find, that, in the
Courfe of this Day's Debate, the Name of Bimop
was fcarce ever mentioned by any of the Speakers
in it.
Sir Trevor l^i/Iiams firft opened the Debate, by
y?DJte en Keli- ,- u n. ui n. j n r • j- u
si on r-fumed moving tor the eitabliined Keligion, according to the
Thirty- nine Articles; which he faid was not only ac-
cording to the Old and New Tefhment, but was as
much ab all that own Chriftianity profefs. Several
Members after him fpoke for and againft this Mo-
tion ; as, Mr. Gower, Dr. Clayton, Col. King, Mr,
Broderick, Mr. Stevens, and Mr. Tbrogmorton ; who
faid, All Proteftant Churches did profefs according to
the Scripture, and mov'd that theThirty-nine Articles
ihould be inferted in the Bill. Lord Richardfon and
Sir John Northcot, for the fame; Serjeant Hales faid
he was for the Thirty-nine Articles; but thought it
not fitting to join them with the Old and New Te-
ftament, in the fame Paragraph, but in fome other.
Mr. Broderlck again for the Articles ; faying, He had
cftenconverfed withthofe of feveral Churches abroad,
and that all prorelTeJ their Religions were according
to the Scriptures ; and moved for a National Synod.
Lord
Of E N G L A N D. 375
Lord Falkland fyoke on the fame Side, and faid, It An. it. Car. II.
was not fit to debate the whole Bill in that Houfe, l66o«
but to leave the Doctrinal Part to a Synod. And ^— -v-— ^
Mr. Peckham was not for altering our Religion with- •*• y*
out proper Judges of it, as by a Synod; and urged a
Cafe in aTrial in Wcftminfter- Hall, where the Judges
fent for a Falconer about a Hawk ; faying, Quilibet
in Arte fua ; and therefore moved for a Synod in
this Cafe, left, going further, they fhouid be like
little Boys, who, learning to fwim, go out of their
Reach and are drowned.
Sir Heneage Finch, our Diary fays, fpoke moft ex-
cellently concerning this SubjecT:, and faid, That not
one Letter of the Bill made good the Title of it;
that the Religion of our Church was not to feek,
but we have enjoyed it long ; and therefore fhouid
not now be inquiring for it.
However, he moved this {hould be referred to
an Aflembly of Divines, for which they ought to
petition the King j for he knew no Law for altering
the Government of the Church by Bifhops. And,
laftly, as for Liberty for tender Confciences, he faid
no Man knew what it was.
Mr. Prynne fpoke very honeftly and paffionately,
fays the Diary, in this Debate for the Paragraph in
the Bill ; and concluded with faying, The Deter-
mination of the Synod muft be confirmed by the
King and Parliament. To whom Sir Heneage Finch
again faid, That the Original of the Paragraph was
from Cromwell, and he did hope they would not cant
after him ; but that, if the Faith grounded upon
Scripture, and the Difcipline according to the Laws,
were put in the Paragraph, he then would give his
Confent to it.
Several more Members fpoke, pro and coil, in this
Debate, till at laft it was moved to adjourn it to ano-
ther Time, which was oppofed by others ; and the
Committee fat an Hour in the Dark, before Candles
were fuffered to be brought in, and then they were
twice blown out ; but the third Time they were
preferved, though with great Diforder ; till at lair,
jadds our Authority, about Ten at Night it was
voted,
376 The Parliamentary H i STORY
An. ia. Car. II. voted, That the King fhould be defired to convene
a fele£l Number of Divines to treat concerning that
Affair, and the Committee not to fit again till the
23d of Oftober next.
The Poll Bill July 10. The next Day the Houfe of Commons
debated. refumed the Affair of the Poll Bill, on which our
Manufcript gives us the Subftance of another great
Debate, and in which Religion, or Confcience, were
again concerned. An Amendment was offered to
the Bill, That all thofe Recufants that fliall refufe
to take the Oath of Supremacy (hall pay double. To
which Mr. Holies moved, that not only Catholics,
but other Recufants alfo, as Fanatics. This Motion
was oppofed by Mr. Anneftey, Mr. Knigbtley, Mr.
Bacon, and fome others, who were for laying it on
Papifts only ; but Air. Holles's, Motion being followed
by Mr. Chafe, Sir Roger Brad/haw, Sir Walter
Erie, and Mr. Knight* who faid it was the beft
Way to know the King's Friends from his Enemies ;
and Sir John Northcot, alfo on the fame Side, faying,
It was beft to lay it on both Papifts and Fanatics
together ; for he did think he could prove, That
one of thofe Perfons, who fat upon the King's Death,
was a Papiftin Orders, having made fome Progrefs
in that Difcovery already. The Claufe was taken and
ordered to be Part of the Bill ; and all from eighteen
Years were to take the Oaths, or pay double.
The Bill of In- Jufy * r- This Day the long-expe&ed Bill of In-
demnity pafs'd demnity paffed the Houfe of Commons ; it was in-
the Home of tjtu]ed An Att of free and general Pardon, Indem-
Commons, _»/-»»!•'* j i i i /-
nity, and Oblivion ; and was ordered to be fent
up to the Lords by Mr. Annejley and Sir William
Lewis.
There had been another Bill of great Confe-
quence brought into that Houfe, and read once,
called, A Bill of Sales. This was to confider the
Cafes of thofe who had been Purchafers of the
King's, Queen's, and Church's Lands, during the
late Times of Plunder and Devaftation. And this
Day the faid Bill coming to be read a fecond Time,
a
Of E N G L A N D. 377
a Debate arofe, of which our Diary gives us this An. i*. Car. II,
Abftrad : 1660.
It was opened by Col. Jones, who moved the v— -v— *
Houfe againft thofe who had bought the King's July*
Lands and Woods, as alfo of Deans and Chapters ;n , ,
i\/r i 11 u /• L j ., Debate on the
to examine what Money the Puichafers had pa!d}Baiot Sales.
£0«<2 jp/dfe, for them ; but to coniider the Soldiers
under General Monke at the fame Time. A Peti-
tion from the Purchafers of St. James's, and St.
Martin's in the Fields, being offered to the Houfe
by Sir Anthony Irby, Col. Shapcot oppofed the Read-
ing of it there j but moved for a Committee to re-
ceive Petitions. Mr. Palmer fpoke very high and
excellently, fays our Authority, againft the whole
Bill ; and moved that the King's Lands, as well as
thofe of others, fhould be reitored to them impli-
citly. Sir Thomas Wroth feconded this laft Motion,
and faid, That, as to his own Cafe, whatever he had
bought he did freely give back again, though he had
paid eighteen Years Purchafe for them. Sir Heneage
Finch and Mr. Knightley fpoke to have the Bill com-
mitted. Mr. Prynne, very warmly, That no Com-
penfation mould be made to thofe who had bought
the King's Lands ; that it was againft their Oaths
to fuffer it, except to thofe who were antient Te-
nants, who had bought the fame in order to pre-
ferve themfelves and Titles ; and, in that Cafe, to
petition the King : Alfo to confider thofe who had
purchafed Land in and about Weftminfter, which'
then was worth nought j but, having now buiit fair
Houfes upon them, the Rents amount to a con-
fiderable Value, and will be ib for the future. Mr.
Goodrich fpoke alfo for the old Tenants that were
forced to buy or be turned out, and to commit the
Bill. Mr. Barton and Mr. Gewen for a Commit-
ment alfo ; but the former was not for confirming
any Sale to thofe who fat after 1648, or High Court
of Juftice Men : The latter urged, That it was the
King's Intereft to have the Bill committed. Whe-
ther it was that tins laft Aflertion ftirr'd up the Zeal
of another Member, one Mr. Calmady, or from fome
other Caufe, but he moved to have the Bill caft out;
or
378 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. 12. Car. H. or elfe, if they would commit it, to commit it to the
Neceffary-Houfe above. Which Motion, as it
might properly enough be called, Mr. Annejley re-
buked, as unbefitting fuch an Aflembly.
The Debate ftill continuing, Mr. Stevens argued
againft the Bill, faying, That they ought not to
encourage Evil-doers ; but, inftead of confirming
Eftates, to punifti the Purchafers : He moved alfo
for an Act of Refumption, wherein they were to be
left to the King's Mercy ; but was for committing
the Bill. After him Col. Weft fpoke for the Bill ;
but to allow the Purchafers very indifferent Terms.
Mr. Knight againft it; faying, He could not in Con-
fcience confent to it, as he fhould anfwer at the Day
of Judgment. Sir Anthony Cope would have all
Perfons in the Houfe to imitate Sir Thomas Wroth ^
and reftore their purchafed Lands ; which, he faid,
would be a good Example to others without. Mr.
Lowther againft the Bill ; faying, The old Proverb
was, That he that eats the King's Goofe Jhould be
choaked with the Feathers ; and that he was againft
the Bill by reafon of his Oath. Sir Thomas Meeres
clefired the Houfe not to have a greater Care of the
King than they had of the Church ; and faid, The
Purchafers had already paid themfelves; and moved
for Refumption and a Grand Committee. Mr.
Thomas againft much of the Bill ; and added Deci-
mators and High Court of Juftice Men to be ex-
cepted out of it ; but to commit the Bill. Several
more Members, as, Col. King^ Sir Richard Templey
and Mr. Street^ were alfo for committing of it ; the
laft to have all Major-Generals and Rumpers ex-
cepted out of the Bill : Not one Member fpeaking
directly in Defence of it, except Sir Thomas Wid-
drington, who might be a Perfon deeply interefted in
its Confequences.
The Debate drawing near a Conclufion, Lord
Falkland moved the Houfe in Behalf of the Queen,
and to refer her Cafe to a Committee. This was
feconded by Mr. Montagu and the Lord Bruce.
Sir George Ryves fpoke alfo in Behalf of the Queen,
and againft the Purchafers ; and faid, It was not fit
Of E N G L A N D. 379
the French, who all this while durft not demand the An. i». Car. II,
Queen's Jointure, ihould now be differed to do it j l6f'0-
but that they ihould prevent them, and give her it ^ ^~
themfelves. Upon the whole it was o;dered, That
all the King's and Queen's Lands, Rents and Pro-
fits, be left out of the BiJI ; and to be referred to a
Grand Committee of the whole Houfe, which was
to fit the next Day in the Afternoon, upon the Cafes
of the feveral Purchafeis concerned in this Bill. Our
Diary mentions the next Sitting ; and that, after
another long Debate, the Queilion was carried,
That Petitions fhould be read before the Body
of the Bill was ; but mentions no more Particulars
about it at this Time.
The Commons had now no very material Bufi-
refs before them for fome Time : On the i4th In-
ftant the Poll Bill was pafled, and lent up to the
Lords by Sir Heneage Finch. There had been feveral
Motions made, pro and con, on this Bill, Whether
the Irijh and Scots Peers fhould pay, upon their
Honours, equal with the Englljb : But it was voted
to pafs as it was.
Another Bill, For granting theKingTonnageand
Poundage, had been before them fome Time ; and
the feveral old Rates, on which this Tax had been
formerly raifed, carefully examined. Several falfe
Returns for Elections regulated. A Breach of Pri-
vilege from the Houfe of Lords complained of, in
the Cafe of Alderman Tichborne, who had been
committed by the Commons, and after fent for to
the Lords, and committed by them ; and when he
was demanded back by the Serjeant, the Ufher of
the Black Rod refufed to deliver him. On Sir John
Northcot's faying, That the Privileges of the Houfe
were too much invaded by the Lords, it was order-
ed that he be fent for again by the Serjeant of that
Houfe. Laftly, another Order was made to take
off the Guards of Soldiers, who had for fome Years
attended the Houfe, and that the Lord-General be
delired to withdraw them accordingly.
380 <T/Je Parliamentary HISTORY
An. ii. Car. II. But now return we back to the Proceedings of
1660. the other Houfe. On the nth Inftant the Lords
*"-"T^ ~* received from the Commons two Bills, viz. For a
•* y* general Pardon, Oblivion, and Indemnity, and For
Confirmation of all judicial Proceedings. On the
former the Lords made an Order, That the daily
Proceedings of the Trial of the late King, by the
High Court of Juftice, in what Court foever inrol-
Jed, (hould be brought into that Houfe. And the
Lords being informed, the fame Day, that thofe
Proceedings were inrolled in every Court, the Houfe
made another Order for the Officers of the King's
Bench, That, after Sight thereof, they do fpeedily
fend a Copy of thofe Proceedings to the Clerk of
that Houfe. The next Day the Bill of Indemnity
was read a firft Time by the Lords.
A Letter from Ireland, concerning the Behaviour
of Col. Axtell) at the Execution of the late King,
was this Day read in the Houfe of Lords, in bcec
Verba:
May it pleafe your Lordjbips,
Letter from Ire- £ T Have thought it fit to communicate unto your
land, concerning c J^ Lordfhips, in order to a due Execution of Ju-
c. xtt . < ftice, in a Matter concerning Col. Axtell; who
' would (as I humbly conceive) have been brought
* under a more fevere Condemnation, than what the
* News out of England report, had his Deportment
* been as well known unto others as unto me, con-
* cerning his late Majefty, when he was brought be-
* fore the pretended High Court of Juftice ; for I
' (then having the Honour to attend his Majefty,
* as being one of his menial Servants) heard thefaid
* Col. Axtell advife and earneftly incite the Soldiers
* then in Wejlminfter-Hail, in a barbarous Manner,
« to cry out for Juftice (as he termed it) againft his
c faid Majefty. And on the Day when that pre-
* tended Court pronounced Sentence againft his then
' Majefty, I heard him then fay to his Soldiers,
* Cry out for Execution j which they did accord-
<in^ 'What
Of E N G L A,N D, 381
e What I have now written I am ready to aver An. iz. Car. ir.
c upon Oath, whenfoever I (hall be brpught to teftify l66o<
« againft him ; which I fhould have fooner made ^'Tp*^
* known unto your Lordmips, had I not been kept ^u y
* m this Place by my bodily Infirmities, and had I
* not been perfuaded that the fame had been more
« publickly taken Notice of than now it feems to be.
* Having nothing at prefent tooccafion or juftify the
' longer Continuance of thefe Lines, I fhall take
* Leave to conclude myfelf,
Right Honourable^
Kilkenny, ? Yeur Lordlbips mo ft bumble Servant,
June 30, 1660. 5
J. HEOVAR.
An Order was made to fecure the Perfon of the
faid Daniel Axtell, and to bring him to the Bar of
that Houfe.
July 13. This Day the Lord-Chancellor inform'^ General Mmke
the Houfe, That his Majefty had conferred the Ho-c™ke'
nourand Title of Duke of Albemarle on the Lord-
General Monks ; whereupon the Houfe ordered,
That he (hould be introduced between the Duke
of Buckingham and the Marquis of IVincbefter, the
Lord Great-Chamberlain, without Robes, Garter
King at Arms going before him. Being thus
brought in, he delivered his Patent, on his Knees,
to the Lord -Chancellor, who delivering the fame
to the Clerk of Parliament, it was publickly read ;
after which Garter King at Arms delivered back the
Patent to the Lord-General Monke; who, by this
Grant from his Majefty, was created Baro de Po-
theridggy Beauchamp et Teys, Comes Torrington^
ft Dux Albemarlix. The Ceremony aforefaid be-
ing ended, the Duke was placed, by Garter, between
the Duke of Buckingham and the Marquis of Win-
cbefter. The Lords ordered alfo, That the Lord
Great-Chamberlain and the Lord Berkley fhould
wait upon his Majefty to give him Thanks, from
thzit Houfe, for the Honour he had been plcafed to
confer
382 We Parliamentary HI
An, 12. Car. II. confer on the Duke of Afremarlc j and that he be
1660. ndcted to the Committee of Privileges.
July> July 16. The Cafe of the Lord ; Vifcount Purltck,
mentioned before in the Tranfa&ions of this Houfe,
iord PurleciCs came to be confidered of; when the Attorney-Ge-
. nejalj on an Qrjer made for that purpofej delivered
:in to the Houfe the following Paper :
' Tlie Attorney- General reports, in purfuance of
the Order of your Lordfhips, dated the 26th Day
of June, 1660, whereby we are required to ftate the
Cafe of the Lord Vifcount Purbeck, concerning
Precedents of the Surrender .of Dignities to the
Crowns We find that the faid Vifcount Purbeck hath
petitioned his Majefty to accept of a Surrender of
the Honour of Baron of Stoke and Vifcount Purbeck,
and of the pretended Title to him in Remainder of
the Honour of Baron Whaddon of IVhaddon, Vi(-
count Villars, and Earl of Buckingham; which his
Majefty was gracioufly pleafed. to accept of, and
referred it to one of us, and his Attorney-General,
to take Care that a Fine or fome other Conveyance
be made thereof.
* And we find the Precedents for furrendering of
Honours to the King to be as followeth :
1. « Roger Bigot, the laft Earl of Norfolk, and
Marfhal of England of that Family, refigned his
Office, Honour, and Eftate unto King Edward I.
conditionally, to be reftored to him if h« had Iflue.
2. * William Herbert, Ez\\ of Ptmbroke, 19. Ed*
ward IV. refigned that Earldom,
?. ' Charles Brandon, Vifcount Lijle, furrender'd
that Honour to Henry VIII.
4. « Roger Stafford, Efq; 15. Car. levied a Fine
to the King of the Honour, State, Degree, Dignity,
and Name of the Barony of Stafford •> which the
King accepted of.
5. ' Sir Edward Tyrrell, Bart. 14.. Car. levied a
Fine unto the King, of the State, Degree, Tide,
and Name of a Baronet j which the King accepted
pf.
Befides
Of E N G L A N D. 383
c Befides we are informed there are many moreAn.ia.Car.n.
Precedents of the like Nature. l66o«
« And the faid Vifcount Purbeck hath produced ^— ~vp- /
unto us the Opinion of the feveral learned Counfel, Ju y*
that he may legally furrender his faid pretended Dig-
nities to his Majefty ; and we are alfo of the fame
Opinion, that he may legally do it with his Maje-
fty's Confent, without the Confent of any other
Perfon whatfoever.
JOHN GLANVIL.
JEFFREY PALMER.
HENEAGE FINCH.
* We find alfo thefe Informations to be in thefe
Words : Informed by the Earl of Monmouth, « That
' rather than the late King mould want oae to cut
' off his Head, the Lord Vifcount Purbeck would do
« it himfelf.'
« The Earl of Oxford: « That the Lord Vif-
* count Purbeck faid he had rather warn his Hands
* in the King's Blood, than in the Blood of any Dog
* in England.'
' That, at the pretended High Court of Juftice,
the Lord Purbeck faid to this Effeft : « That Brad'
' Jbaw was a gallant Man, the Preferver of our Li-
' berties ; and that he, the Lord Purbeck^ hoped
' that Bradjhaw would do Juftice upon that Tyrant,
' fpeaking of the King.'
' Mr. Danvers, in Richard 's Convention, the
I2th of February , 1658, fpoke thus, ftandtng near
the Speaker's Right Hand :
' Mr. Speaker, I wonder that I mould be accufed
of being a Cavalier, or bearing Arms for Charles
Stuart , which I never did ; for I proteft I fo much
hated him and his Caufe, that, becaufe thofe of the
Name of Pillars did all fide with him and affift
him, therefore I hated that Name alfo, and
changed it for Danvers'
Monday , Dec. 17, 1649. Memorandum. * That,
the Day and Year above-written, young Robert
Pillars^ Son to Vifcount Purbeck^ came in the Af-
ternoon to the Earl of Monmoutb's Houfe, being
« then
384 *Tbe Parliamentary His TOR v
An. 12. Car. II. « then in ghteen-ftreet^ London ; and, amongft many
1660. t other atheiftical Speeches, wherein he denied the
^**7)l ^ * Immortality of the Soul, &c. as given at p. 362 ;
but is too profane for Repetition.
* This is the Information of John Harris : All
which Words, Matters, and Things the faid Vif-
count Purbeck utterly denies.
JOHN GLANVIL.
JEFFREY PALMER.
HENEAGE FINCH/
Before the Lords had begun to debate the Aft of
Indemnity, in which the Commons had made fuch
a Work, in relation to the Sale of the King's and
Queen's Lands, &c. their Lordfhips thought fit,
this Day, to make the following Orders, which,
for Brevity's Sake, we put in one :
* Ordered, by the Lords in Parliament aflembled,
That the King's and Queen's Majefties fhould be,
and was thereby, reftored to the PofTeflion of all his
and her Honours, Jointure, Manors, Lands, Rents,
and Hereditaments, notwithftanding any Sales, Alie-
nations, or Difpofnions made by any pretended
Authorities whatfoever.
July ij. The AS: of Indemnity was read a fecond
Time in the Houfe of Lords, and ordered to be re-
ferred to a Committee of the whole Houfe, to be
proceeded in on the 2Oth, the firft Bufmefs ; and
that no new private Bufmefs, or Petitions, (hall be
brought into this Houfe untill the public Bufmefs,
now depending, {hall be difpatched, except fuch
Bufmefs as fhali concern the public Bills, to be pro-
moted by any private Perfons, by Way of Provisoes,
or otb^: vvife.
The Lords alfo made a general Order, in rela-
tion to the Earl of Derby, whofe Father's Murderers,
at a Court- Martial, were all in Cuftody, That his
and feveral other Lords Lands which have been
fold, without their Ccnfent, (hall be repoffeffed by
them without anv Moleftation.
July
Of. E N G L A N D. 385
July 2O. This was the Day appointed for the An. 12. Car. II.
Lords to take into Confideration the Bill of Indem- j66°f
nity; and, accordingly, the fame was begun by a ' r{~"~"'
Committee of the whole Houfe ; but before we give •* y
the Refult of thofe Confultations, it will be necei-
fary to look into the Proceedings of the Commons,
in order to carry on a better Connection between
the two Houfes.
We have already given, from our Manufcript Dia-
ry, the Subftance of a Debate on Religion, by a Com-
mittee of the Commons appointed for that Purpofe.
The fame Authority gives us another, which hap-
pened on the i6th Inftant, in the Afternoon; where-
in the Reader will find a nearer and clofer Combat
between Martin the Bifhop and "Jack Prejbyter,
as Dr. Swift humoroufly ftiles our nrft Reformers,
than in what has before been recited.
Sir John Northcot began the Debate, by fpeaking A long Debate
very highly againft Deans and Chapters; but fparedon Reiis'"jn-
the Bifhops, faying, The former did nothing but
eat and drink and rife up to play^ or fomething worfe :
Upon which Mr. • • flood up and reproved
him ; but he was juftified by Sir Walter Erie, Mr.
Prynne fpoke next, and faid, He could not be for
Bifhops, unlefs they would derive their Power from
the King, and not vaunt themfelves to be 'Jure Di-
i)ino. Mr. Ifalpole was for putting the Queffion,
Which was the Proteftant Faith, according to the
Scriptures and the Government of the Church, and
according to Law. Mr. Knightley was for the Clergy,
in general, faying, The Faults of private Perfons
ought not to make the Function criminal. Sir Tho-
mas Widdrington faid, The Queftion, as it was,
was not tor a Committee, or even a Parliament; but
moved to make two Queftions of it. Mr. Grove^
on the fame Side alfo, faid, The Queftion was
complicated, and defired that the firft Part of the
Queftion might be put; adding, That the King
was then confulting with Divines about the Difci-
pline of the Church. To which Dr. Clayton laid,
That Difcipline was as neceflary with Dodtrine, as
VOL. XXII. B b Life
386 'The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. n. Car. II. Life in a natural Body. Mr. Stevens faid, The firft
1660. part Qf the Queftion they fhould all agree in ; but,
for the fecond, not to anticipate the King, who was,
at that Time, confulting about it. Several Mem-
bers, as Lord Falkland^ Mr. Thomas , Sjr Thomas
Meeres, Sir John Ma/ham, Mr. Winfield^ Mr. P*/-
aier, Mr. Broderick, and Mr. Howard^ argued for
the whole Queftion ; which laft Gentleman, par-
ticularly, faid, That as Monarchy had been fo
long interrupted by Rebellion and Faction, fo had
Epifcopacy by Schifm and Herefy ; and that no one
that fpoke againft Epifcopacy offered any Thing-
better.
Other Members were for dividing the Queftion ;
as, Sir Thomas Widdrington and Sir John Northcot
again, who faid, He was for Bifhops, but not their
Appendants. Mr. Toung was for dividing, and not
to mix the Doctrine and Difcipline together ; yet,
he faid, he was for Epifcopacy, though he did not
think it an Article of Faith : And urged the King's
Declaration for tender Confciences formerly, and
his prefent Endeavours for fettling of Peace amongft
all People, Sir John Temple argued for a Divifion
of the Queflion, faying, The former Difcipline was
the Occafion of their former Troubles ; and moved
for a Synod. Col. King faid, That no Man could
tell what the Difcipline according to Law was ; and
therefore moved to divide the Queftion. Mr. Throg-
morton fpoke highly for Bifhops, faying, That, ex-
cept Scotland, there was fcarce any Reformed Church
but what had Bifhops. Mr. Bunckley faid, He
thought a moderate Epifcopacy might take in the
Good of both Parties ; and urged the King's prefent
Inclinations and Endeavours for it : That Epifco-
pacy, in its Extent, was more boundlefs than Mo-
narchy ; adding, That fome of the Bifhops gloried
. in putting down all Lectures in a Country, and it
was a Fault to preach twice a Day ; but concluded,
That Government by Epifcopacy, if circumfcribed,
was to be wiflied ; and moved to divide the Que-
ftion. Some other Members, as Mr. Swmfen, Mr.
Of E N G L A N D. 387
Gott, and Mr. Prynne, fpoke on the fame Side j but An, i». Car. II.
no further Remarks were made on them.
On the other Hand, the Debate ftill continuing,
fome Members more argued for putting the whole
Queftion, as Sir Heneage Finch, who faid, The firft
Fart was not to be put fmgly, after one hundred and
forty Years Practice. Mr. Thurland and Mr.
Knight were for the fame. Sir John Talbot faid»
Thofe that formerly defired to haften the Settlement
of Religion, now ftrove to obftrucl the Queftion.
Sir Heneage Finch, again, to put the Queftion, Whe-
ther the main Queftion fhould be put or not.
Various Opinions now ftarted in this Debate : Sir
Gilbert Gerrard faid, He could not give his Vote
for the Queftion, untill he knew whether it was
againft the Covenant. This was feconded by Colo-
nel Shapcot, who argued, That many Things in the
Liturgy might be amended ; and hoped that Men
would not be impoiing on other's Confciences : That
he was not againft Bifhops, but their Power ; and
moved to divide the Queftion. Sir Thomas Wbar-
ton faid, He was in his Judgment Epifcopal ; bat
moved the Queftion might not be put at prefent,
becaufe the King was in Confultation about it. Mr.
Bunckley, again, was now for laying the whole Que-
ftion alide ; becaufe, he faid, If it was put amj
carried, all Minifters made fmce 1648 would be
abolifhed. Sir John Northcot again moved in
Behalf of the Miniftry, and faid, Many of thofe
who were ordained by Prefbyters, were aclive io
bringing in the King. S'u.Anthony djhley Cooper faid,
Our Religion was too much mix'd with Intereft j
neither was it ripe enough now to handle that Sub-
ject ; and moved that this Debate be now laid afide,
and the whole Committee adjourned for three
Months. This laft Motion was followed by Sir
John Evelyn, Sir Anthony Irby, ^Ar.Broderick, Sir Ed-
mund Jennings, Sir Trevor Williams, Mr. Chafe,
Mr. Bofcawen, Mr. Holies, and Sir Heneage Finch ;
and, after feven Hours Debate, about Ten at Night,
it was at laft agreed to refer the Matter to the King,
and to fuch Divines as he ihould pleafe to chufe ,
B b a and,
388 'The Parliamentary Hi STORY
An. la. Car.ll.and {O adjourn this Committee to the 23d of Oc-
*1^1] , tober next : Which Refolution of the Committee
ju]Vt being reported by their Chairman, Mr. Charltan,
to the whole Houfe, it was confirmed by a general
Vote thereof.
The fame Day, July 20, the Lords, according
to Order, adjourned themfelves into a Committee,
to confider of the Bill of Indemnity j and, after fome
Time, the Houfe was refumed, but no Report made
of their Proceedings therein as yet.
At the fame Time the Lords received a quick-
ening Meflage from the Commons, to haften the
Difpatch of that Bill ; and another for Confirmation
of Judicial Proceedings : Alledging thefe two Rea-
fons for it, That, unlefs the latter Bill be patted,
there can be no Aflizes kept, though they are ap-
pointed ; and, unlefs the former be the fame, the
Animofities of the People will be increafed, and
thereby the Peace of the Kingdom greatly difturbed.
On the Receipt of this Meffage the Lords went
again into a Committee on the Bill of Indemnity ;
and the Houfe being refumed, the Lord Roberts re-
ported the Opinion of the Committee was, That
all thofe Perfons who gave Sentence of Death upon
the late King, or figned the Warrant for his Mur-
der, fhall be excepted out of the Bill of Indemnity :
And, that to know who thofe Perfons are, the ori-
ginal Evidences fhall be defired from the Houfe of
Commons for their Lordfhips Information : Which
Opinion the Houfe confirmed, and ordered a Mef-
fage to be fent accordingly.
In the Debate, this Day, on the Bill before-
mentioned, we meet with a Speech in our Collec-
tion, faid, in the Title Page, to be made by the Earl
of Brifto'I) on the Occafion, which we here infert
without any Comment. *
My Lords^
TheEarlof£«-e T)Eing to fpeak; unto your Lordfhips fomewhat
fhe BUlTnS O more jextenctedly .than what is my Ufe, and
•if-nsiity. upon a Subject, wherein there may be, perhaps, not
only
* Lina'in, printed in the Year 1660,
Of ENGLAND. 389
only Difference, but even Fervour of Opinions, I An. iz. c«r. if.
find myfelf obliged, by fomewhat that happened to 1660.
me here the other Day, to beg a Favour of your V-""Tf"""'
Lordfhips, that, if I fliould chance to err in Forms Ju y
and Orders of the Houfe, or that there mould flip
from me, unawares, any Expreffion that may be dif-
fonant to the Ears of thofe who underftand better
than I the Force and Propriety of Words, you will
not be fevere unto me ; but be pleafed to confider,
That I have been fixteen Years out of my Country,
and in a Profeffion far different from what I am
now a-doing : In Confidence of this Indulgence I
fhall proceed.
' My Lords, You have here before you, in this
Bill of Indemnity, the moft important Bufmefs that,
perhaps, the Houfe of Peers hath at any Time had
in Deliberation ; it is that upon which the Ho-
nour or eternal Reproach of the Nation abroad,
and its Happinefs or Confufion at home, feems (next
under God's infcrutable Providence) moft princi-
pally to depend : For, on the one Side, how abhorred
a Nation muft we be to all others, if the Infamy of
our Sovereign's Murder mould not be thoroughly
warned away, by Juftice, in the Blood of the Guilty?
And, on the other, what Happinefs or Quiet can
we hope for at home ; nay, what new Combu-
ftions ought we not to apprehend, if the Criminal
and the Milled, (between whom the Eye of the Law
can make little Diftin6tion) making up fo nume-
rous a Part of the Nation, their Fears, which might
urge them to new Crimes, mould not be fecured,
by the firmeft AfTurances of Impunity? Punifhing
and Securing are, certainly, the two principal Ends
of this Bill ; and wherein, as certainly, every one
of your Lordfhip§ doth concur ; but whether the
Means of attaining thofe Ends have been fufHciently
lighted upon by the Houfe of Commons, in this
Bill, That, I fuppofe, is the prefent QuefHon ; and
wherein I think myfelf in Duty obliged to exprefs
unto your Lordfhips, with Freedom and Sincerity,
my Judgment, in all humble Submiffion unto yours,
B b 3 l As
390 The Parliamentary HISTORY
. * As for that Part of the Bill which relates to our
Sovereign's Murder, I find it fo fhort, and fo much
out of the Way of what we owe, both to the Se-
verity and Solemnity of that Revenge, that I can-
not but think it, in fome Sort, (pardon the Expref-
fion) a Profanation of the due Rights of thatfacred
Expiation, to handle it in the fame Bill, promifcu-
oufly, with other more vulgar Things.
' My Motion therefore (hall be, That there be
forthwith a Committee appointed, to confider of all
Things fit to be done, for the wafhing away of that
Stain from the Nation, and from the Age wherein
we live ; and to draw up an Act purpofely and folely
for that End. In Confidence that this Motion will
either be embraced by your Lordfhips, or that, if it
be oppofed, I {hall have the Liberty to fortify it by
my Reafons, I fhall fet that Bufinefs apart, and ap-
ply my Difcourfe to what concerns this Bill, in all
other Relations } in which I fhall not make nice to
tell your Lordfhips, that I think it defective in many
Things reafonable, and redundant in fome Things
unreasonable ; and yet, notwithftanding, not only
jny humble Motion, but my moft earneft Preflure,
as far as with Humility I may, fhall be, That we
may proceed immediately to the paffing of this Bill,
with little or no Alteration.
' This, my Lords, may appear a furprizing Mo-
tion from a Perfon thought to be, as indeed I am,
as much inflamed as any Man living with Indigna-
tion at the deteftable Proceedings of the late ufurped
Power, fo pernicious to the Public, and fo inju-
rious to my own Particular ; in whom the Motion
may feem yet more furprizing, when I fhall have
told you, with Truth, that I am irreparably ruined
in my Fortune for my Loyalty, if this Bill of In-
demnity, to others for their Diflo^alty, fhould pafs
as it is here offered unto your Lordfhips : But the
Ground I go upon is this received Maxim, as to
all public Sanctions, Better a Mifchief than an In-
convenience ; yea, Better innumerable Mifchiefs
to particular Perfons and Families, than one heavy
Inconvenience to the Public.
'My
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* My Lords, I profefs unto you I find myfelf fet on An- 12- Car- **•
•Fire, when I think that the Blood of fo many virtuous
and meritorious Peers, and Perfons, and others of all """"X~
Ranks, To cruelly and impioufly fhed, {hould cry fo
Joud for Vengeance, and not find it from us.
' That many of the wickedeft and meaneft of the
People fliould remain, as it were, rewarded for their
Treafons, rich and triumphant in the Spoils of the
moft eminent in Virtue and Loyalty, of all the
Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom.
' What generous Spirit can make Reflection on
thefe Things, and not find his Heart burn into Rage
within him ?
* Here it is, my Lords, that we Sufferers have
Need of all our Philofophy.
' But when I confider that thefe are Mifchiefs
only to the Sufferers, and that, to infift upon a Re-
medy, might perhaps expofe the Public to an irrepa-
fable Inconvenience, I thank God I find, in an In-
ftant, all my Refentments calmed and fubmitted
to my primary Duty.
4 My Lords, We have here in our View a King-
dom tofled, and rolling ftill with the Effects of
paft Tempefts ; and though, God be thanked, the
Storm be miraculoufly ceafed, we cannot fay that
the Danger is, untill we get into ftill Water : That
ftill, that fmooth Water is only to be found in the
Generality's Security from their guilty Fears, and in
the two Houfes' Union between themfelves, and with
their Sovereign.
Whether the latter may not be endangered, if we
fhould enter into Controverfy upon the Particulars
of this Bill, I leave unto your Lordfhips to judge.
But, certainly, as to the former, there can be
110 Hopes of railing Monies, or difbanding Armies,
or of fettling that Happinefs and Tranquility which
we all figh for, of being governed under our graci-
ous Sovereign by the antient and known Laws of
the Land, whilft univerfal Fears lhall fubfift by the
Delay in pafling this Bill.
' My Lords, I lhall fum up unto your Lordfliips
my whole Drift in a few Words.
392 The Parliamentary HISTORY
An. iz. Car. II. * I think that, in this Bill, there are many Things
wanting, which folid and important Reafons would
^"""T)J~ ^J require°to be added, and many Things inferted into
it, which Juftice to his Majefty's Intereft, and to
particular Perlbns, would require to be omitted, or
rectified : But, I conceive, at the fame Time, that
the Mifchiefs of the Delay in paffing it, do far out-
weigh all the Advantages of improving it.
' My Lords, I (hall conclude my Difcourfe, and
your Loidfhips Trouble, with the Application, to
this Purpofe, of a memorable Saying of that illuftri-
ous Minifter, the Cardinal Mazarine, at a Council in
the Wars of France^ whereunto I had the Honour
to be called. It was, That in the great Affairs of
the World, he had not known any Thing do more
Hurt than thefe two Words, Faifons Mieux, let us
do better : For, faid he, whilft good